What is it about?
Ultraviolet light has been used for disinfecting surfaces for decades, but it poses several health risks to humans, including skin cancer. Now, scientists from Nagoya City University, Japan, have developed a new approach to inactivate pathogens using an inexpensive visible-light pulsed laser. Their findings could pave the way to innovative technologies that will help us combat highly infectious diseases like COVID-19 in a safer manner.
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Why is it important?
Overall, the results presented in this study will pave the way to new techniques and devices for disinfecting surfaces without putting human health at risk
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This page is a summary of: Mechanism of transient photothermal inactivation of bacteria using a wavelength-tunable nanosecond pulsed laser, Scientific Reports, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01543-5.
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