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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 32, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0031332
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-14-10317]
- UCLA [60796566-114411]
- UCLA DGSOM and Broad Stem Cell Research Center institutional award (OCRC) [20-1]
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Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infectious virions are viable on various surfaces (e.g., plastic, metals, and cardboard) for several hours. This presents a transmission cycle for human infection that can be broken by developing new inactivation approaches. We employed an efficient cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) with argon feed gas to inactivate SARS-CoV-2 on various surfaces including plastic, metal, cardboard, basketball composite leather, football leather, and baseball leather. These results demonstrate the great potential of CAP as a safe and effective means to prevent virus transmission and infections for a wide range of surfaces that experience frequent human contact. Since this is the first-ever demonstration of cold plasma inactivation of SARS-CoV-2, it is a significant milestone in the prevention and treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and presents a new opportunity for the scientific, engineering, and medical communities.
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