Molecular Insights and Current Challenges Driving Advances in Plasma Medicine
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2025 | Viewed by 85
Special Issue Editor
Interests: surface characterization; plasma deposition; atmospheric pressure plasmas; APPJ; plasma diagnosis; atmospheric pressure plasma surface interactions; plasma-living tissue interface; plasma medicine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Electric discharge plasmas have attracted great interest since their discovery around a century ago. The emerging interdisciplinary fields associated with electric discharges are rapidly developing, opening new perspectives but also requiring new tools to investigate, monitor and control plasma parameters. The involvement of thermal and non-thermal electric discharges in matter processing is a broad new field (e.g., plasma medicine, plasma bioengineering, plasma agronomy, plasma automotive, etc.) that needs specific regulations in order to fulfill the necessity of the beneficiaries of these plasma technologies. This Special Issue will present results concerning new and innovative applications as well as perspectives of thermal and non-thermal electric discharge plasmas in interaction with the matter, following these processes at the molecular down to the atomic level. Here, we welcome the submission of results on plasma discharge diagnostics using electric to optic/spectroscopic methods, monitoring techniques and new devices specially made for plasma diagnostics, plasma–surface interaction and surface investigation after plasma exposure. However, the main feature of this Special Issue is to provide significant knowledge in the field of molecular research that can advance our understanding of plasma interaction with mater, which may lead to exploration in all the mentioned applications.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Plasma technology;
- Atmospheric-pressure plasmas;
- Plasma medicine;
- Plasma oncology;
- Biological effects of plasmas;
- Future perspectives for electrical discharges;
- Role of electric plasmas in medicine;
- Plasma–surface interface.
Dr. Andrei Vasile Nastuta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plasma medicine
- plasma pharmacology
- plasma oncology
- plasma bioengineering
- plasma agronomy
- plasma and food
- plasma and automotive
- plasma and aerospace
- plasma diagnostics
- plasma material processing
- plasma polymerization and coating
- simulation of plasma phenomena during interaction with matter
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