3A  Special Session on Plasma Medicine II (oral)

Tuesday, June 22  9:30-12:00  Hampton Rds IV

9:30  3A-1  (invited) FABRICATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF ORGANIC THIN FILMS FOR APPLICATIONS IN TISSUE ENGINEERING

M. R. Wertheimer¹, J. C. Ruiz¹, A. St-Georges-Robillard¹, C. Theresy², S. Lerouge²

¹Engineering Physics, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, QC, Canada
²Mechanical Engineering, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Montreal, QC, Canada

10:00  3A-2  (invited) MICROPLASMA GENERATION OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

J. Santos Sousa¹, G. Bauville², B. Lacour², V. Puech², M. Touzeau³, J. -L. Ravanat⁴

¹LPGP, CNRS-UPS / IPFN, IST, Orsay / Lisboa, France / Portugal
²LPGP, CNRS-UPS, Orsay, France
³LTM, CNRS-UJF-INPG, Grenoble, France
⁴CEA, Inac, SCIB/LAN CEA-UJF, Grenoble, France

10:30  3A-3  (invited) DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OF COLD ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA SOURCES FOR TREATMENT OF LIVING TISSUES

M. Kong, J. Walsh, Z. Cao, F. Iza

Electrical and Electronic Eng, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom

11:00  3A-4 DESTRUCTION OF AMYLOID FIBRILS BY THE PLASMA PENCIL

L. Greene¹, M. Laroussi², A. Munyanyi¹, E. Karakas²

¹Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY, Norfolk,Va, United States
²Laser and Plasma Eng. Inst., OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY, Norfolk,Va, United States

11:15  3A-5 INTERACTIONS OF COLD ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMA JETS WITH PLASMID DNA

D. O'Connell, L. J. Cox, W. B. Hyland, S. J. McMahon, W. G. Graham, T. Gans, F. Currell

Centre for Plasma Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

11:30  3A-6 DNA DAMAGE IN MAMMALIAN CELLS BY NON-THERMAL ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MICROSECOND PULSED DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE PLASMA IS NOT MEDIATED VIA LIPID PEROXIDATION

S. Kalghatgi¹, J. Azizkhan-Clifford², A. Fridman³, G. Friedman¹

¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
²Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
³Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

11:45  3A-7 STERILIZATION AND SURFACE DECONTAMINATION BY A NOVEL VHF-CCP

K. Stapelmann, N. Bibinov, B. Denis, E. Semmler, P. Awakowicz

Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany