Advances in pulsed electric stimuli as a physical method for treating liquid foods

F Zare, N Ghasemi, N Bansal, H Hosano - Physics of Life Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
There is a need for alternative technologies that can deliver safe and nutritious foods at
lower costs as compared to conventional processes. Pulsed electric field (PEF) technology …

Intracellular electric fields produced by dielectric barrier discharge treatment of skin

NY Babaeva, MJ Kushner - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The application of atmospheric pressure plasmas to human tissue has been shown to have
therapeutic effects for wound healing and in treatment of skin diseases. These effects are …

Bactericidal action of positive and negative ions in air

LA Fletcher, LF Gaunt, CB Beggs, SJ Shepherd… - BMC microbiology, 2007 - Springer
Background In recent years there has been renewed interest in the use of air ionisers to
control of the spread of airborne infection. One characteristic of air ions which has been …

Nanopore-facilitated, voltage-driven phosphatidylserine translocation in lipid bilayers—in cells and in silico

PT Vernier, MJ Ziegler, Y Sun, MA Gundersen… - Physical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanosecond, megavolt-per-meter pulses—higher power but lower total energy than the
electroporative pulses used to introduce normally excluded material into biological cells …

Using a pulsed electric field as a pretreatment for improved biosolids digestion and methanogenesis

MB Salerno, HS Lee, P Parameswaran… - Water environment …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Researchers tested using pulsed electric field (PEF) technology to enhance conversion of
organic solids material in waste activated sludge (WAS) and pig manure to soluble and …

Bactericidal effect of corona discharges in atmospheric air

IV Timoshkin, M Maclean, MP Wilson… - … on Plasma Science, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper explores the possibilities of using impulsive and steady-state corona discharges
for biodecontamination operations. A high tension tubular corona electrode was stressed …

Electrical stimulation for cartilage tissue engineering-A critical review from an engineer's perspective

J Zimmermann, AR Farooqi, U van Rienen - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Cartilage has a limited intrinsic healing capacity. Hence, cartilage degradation and lesions
pose a huge clinical challenge, particularly in an ageing society. Osteoarthritis impacts a …

Disruption of the actin cortex contributes to susceptibility of mammalian cells to nanosecond pulsed electric fields

GL Thompson, C Roth, G Tolstykh… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) perturb membranes of cultured mammalian
cells in a dose‐dependent manner with different types of cells exhibiting characteristic …

Picosecond and terahertz perturbation of interfacial water and electropermeabilization of biological membranes

PT Vernier, ZA Levine, MC Ho, S Xiao… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Non-thermal probing and stimulation with subnanosecond electric pulses and terahertz
electromagnetic radiation may lead to new, minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic …

Numerical assessments of geometry, proximity and multi-electrode effects on electroporation in mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum to nanosecond electric …

C Baker, A Willis, W Milestone, M Baker, AL Garner… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Most simulations of electric field driven bioeffects have considered spherical cellular
geometries or probed symmetrical structures for simplicity. This work assesses cellular …