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Plasma-activated water retains antimicrobial properties against Escherichia coli after 72 h of storage

Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino, Rita Agus, Brayden Graham Myers

Plasma-activated water (PAW) is increasingly recognized for its bactericidal properties. To advance this technology toward practical applications and deepen the understanding of its mechanisms, it is crucial to study the storage stability of PAW, focusing ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Investigating the effects of plasma-activated water on E. coli with the novel application of single-cell impedance flow cytometry

Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino, Rita Agus, Brayden Graham Myers

Single-cell impedance flow cytometry (IFC) is a rapid, label-free diagnostic capable of resolving the dielectric properties of individual cells. Here, single-cell IFC is employed to investigate the effects of plasma-activated water (PAW) on E. coli. This d ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Flow cytometry study of Escherichia coli treated with plasma-activated water: confirming the absence of the viable but non-culturable state in bacteria

Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino, Rita Agus, Brayden Graham Myers

Plasma-activated water (PAW) is an emerging antimicrobial agent with promising applications in bacterial inactivation. The PAW samples are generated by non-contact exposure of deionized water to a surface dielectric barrier discharge plasma and are charact ...

Frontiers Media SA2025

In-Situ FTIR and Laser Induced Fluorescence RONS Characterization of Atmospheric Pressure Nanosecond-Pulsed Surface DBD Plasma for Indirect Treatments of E. Coli

Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino, Lorenzo Ibba, Rita Agus

We study the bactericidal efficacy of surface dielectric barrier discharge low-temperature plasma treatments, powered by nanosecond high voltage pulses. We achieve similar to 4-log reduction in Escherichia coli population, after 10 min treatments, at a dis ...

Springer2024

Implementing water recirculation in a novel portable plasma-activated water reactor enhances antimicrobial effect against Escherichia coli

Alan Howling, Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino, Lorenzo Ibba, Rita Agus, Leonardo Zampieri, Brayden Graham Myers

The need for sustainable and reliable decontamination methods is driven by concerns regarding antibiotic resistance, as well as environmental and cost -efficiency challenges associated with traditional methods. Plasmaactivated water (PAW) holds significant ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

3-prnted devces for optmzed generaton of cold atmospherc plasma to mprove decontamnaton of surfaces from respratory pathogens

Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino

Three-dmensonal (3)-prntng technology s nstrumental n creatng devces for bologcal applcatons, ncludng the explotaton of cold atmospherc plasma (CAP). CAP, a partally onzed gas that functons at ambent temperatures, serves as a safe, nexpensve, and effectve ...

2024

Surface DBD degradation in humid air, and a hybrid surface-volume DBD for robust plasma operation at high humidity

Alan Howling, Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino, Lorenzo Ibba, Alexandra Waskow

Surface dielectric barrier discharge performance deteriorates in humid air, with permanent and/or reversible degradation of its components. Plasma operation in a humid environment is unavoidable when humid air or water-containing materials are treated. Exp ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Enhanced radio-frequency performance of niobium films on copper substrates deposited by high power impulse magnetron sputtering

Fabio Avino

We present a study of radio frequency properties of niobium films deposited on copper by two different approaches based on High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering, namely with a DC voltage biased substrate and with bipolar target voltage. Such approaches e ...

2022

Entering the plasma agriculture field: An attempt to standardize protocols for plasma treatment of seeds

Alan Howling, Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino, Alexandra Waskow

Plasma treatments are currently being assessed as a seed processing technology for agricultural purposes. There is sufficient information as a proof-of-concept, but a lack of standardization in the methodology prevents a convincing evaluation of plasma tre ...

2022

Slip Ring Test Assembly With Increased Breakdown Voltage Limit for High-Voltage Bus Satellites

Alan Howling, Ivo Furno, Fabio Avino

In this article, a setup including a passive gas breakdown mitigation technique for satellite slip ring assemblies (SRAs) is introduced and tested. The setup features a central conducting ring, separated from two external conducting limiting discs (LDs) by ...

2020

FCC-ee: The Lepton Collider: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 2

Manuel Bauer, Luca Rossi, François Robert, Jean-Michel Sallese, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Bernhard Auchmann, Alban Sublet, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Yu Bai, Jorg Wenninger, Tatiana Pieloni, Leonid Rivkin, Hua Zhang, Xavier Buffat, Andrea Wulzer, Martin Vogel, Sandra Aumon, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho, Giuseppe Montenero, Marco Drewes, Doohyun Kim, Frank Zimmermann, José Luis Abelleira Fernández, Alexej Grudiev, Fabio Avino, Massimo Giovannozzi, Patrik Gonçalves Jorge, Francesco Cerutti, Javier Barranco Garcia, Roberto Contino, Rudiger Schmidt, Claudia Tambasco, Michael Schenk, Yi Zhang, Georgi Gorine, Agnieszka Chmielinska, Luca Bottura, Lotta Maria Mether, Mithlesh Kumar, Vincenzo D'Auria, , , , , , , ,

HE-LHC: The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 4

Manuel Bauer, Luca Rossi, Thomas Rizzo, François Robert, Jean-Michel Sallese, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Bernhard Auchmann, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Alban Sublet, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Yu Bai, Jorg Wenninger, Marc-Olivier Sauvain, Tatiana Pieloni, Leonid Rivkin, Hua Zhang, Xavier Buffat, Mingkui Wang, Andrea Wulzer, Martin Vogel, Sandra Aumon, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho, Giuseppe Montenero, Marco Drewes, Giovanni Migliorati, Florian Patrick Marie Daniel De la Barre De Nanteuil, Doohyun Kim, Frank Zimmermann, José Luis Abelleira Fernández, Alexej Grudiev, Fabio Avino, Massimo Giovannozzi, Patrik Gonçalves Jorge, Francesco Cerutti, Javier Barranco Garcia, Roberto Contino, Eva Maria Rodriguez Franco, Rudiger Schmidt, Claudia Tambasco, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

FCC-hh: The Hadron Collider: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 3

Manuel Bauer, Luca Rossi, François Robert, Jean-Michel Sallese, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Bernhard Auchmann, Alban Sublet, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Yu Bai, Jorg Wenninger, Tatiana Pieloni, Leonid Rivkin, Hua Zhang, Xavier Buffat, Andrea Wulzer, Martin Vogel, Sandra Aumon, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho, Giuseppe Montenero, Marco Drewes, Doohyun Kim, Frank Zimmermann, José Luis Abelleira Fernández, Alexej Grudiev, Fabio Avino, Massimo Giovannozzi, Patrik Gonçalves Jorge, Francesco Cerutti, Javier Barranco Garcia, Roberto Contino, Rudiger Schmidt, Claudia Tambasco, Michael Schenk, Yi Zhang, Agnieszka Chmielinska, Luca Bottura, Lotta Maria Mether, Mithlesh Kumar, Vincenzo D'Auria, Sondre Vik Furuseth, , , , , ,

Gas breakdown mitigation in satellite slip rings

Alan Howling, Ivo Furno, Paul Jeroen Laureis Martens, Fabio Avino

Direct current (DC) gas breakdown is experimentally investigated for high-voltage circular conductors and insulators that reproduce the main features of a satellite slip ring. Breakdown voltages are measured in the pressure range 10 ...

2019

FCC Physics Opportunities: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 1

Manuel Bauer, Luca Rossi, Thomas Rizzo, François Robert, Jean-Michel Sallese, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Benedikt Moser, Mikhail Chapochnikov, Bernhard Auchmann, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Nicolas Andreini, Alban Sublet, Anatole von Lilienfeld, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Yu Bai, Jorg Wenninger, Michele Cascella, Marc-Olivier Sauvain, Tatiana Pieloni, Pablo Marcelo Perez Garcia, Rui Ning Wang, Leonid Rivkin, Hua Zhang, Xavier Buffat, Mingkui Wang, Andrea Wulzer, Martin Vogel, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Sandra Aumon, Alexandra Sarabando de Carvalho, Roberto Franceschini, Karin Irmgard Löw, Lucia Jimenez Rojo, Jie Gao, Giuseppe Montenero, Marco Drewes, Craig Nowell, Peter Michael Vogel, Shourya Dutta Gupta, Jairo Camilo Quijano Perez, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Blob properties in full-turbulence simulations of the TCV scrape-off layer

Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Avino, Federico Nespoli

To investigate blob properties in the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), we perform dedicated numerical nonlinear simulations of plasma turbulence in the SOL of a TCV discharge using the Global Braginskii Solver code. A blob detection technique is used for th ...

2017

X-Point Effect on Plasma Blob Dynamics

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Fabio Avino

Plasma blob dynamics on the high-field side in the proximity of a magnetic field null (X point) is investigated in TORPEX. A significant acceleration of the blobs towards the X point is observed. Close to the X point the blobs break apart. The E x B drifts ...

American Physical Society2016

Dual Langmuir-probe array for 3D plasma studies in TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Rémy Jacquier, Fabio Avino, Oulfa Chellaï, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Fabian Manke

We have designed and installed a new Langmuir-probe (LP) array diagnostic to determine basic three-dimensional (3D) features of plasmas in TORPEX. The diagnostic consists of two identical LP arrays, placed on opposite sides of the apparatus, which provide ...

2016

Plasma turbulence, suprathermal ion dynamics and code validation on the basic plasma physics device TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Francesca Maria Poli, Benoît Labit, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Gennady Plyushchev, Davoud Iraji, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kyle Gustafson, Fabio Avino

The TORPEX basic plasma physics device at the Center for Plasma Physics Research (CRPP) in Lausanne, Switzerland is described. In TORPEX, simple magnetized toroidal configurations, a paradigm for the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), as well as more complex ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Electromagnetic turbulent structures: A ubiquitous feature of the edge region of toroidal plasma configurations

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Fabio Avino, Nicola Vianello

Electromagnetic features of turbulent filaments, emerging from a turbulent plasma background, have been studied in four different magnetic configurations: the stellarator TJ-II, the Reversed Field Pinch RFX-mod, a device that can be operated also as a ohmi ...

Amer Inst Physics2015