PHILADELPHIA – The Energy Commercialization Institute (ECI), the region’s first university-based energy commercialization partnership, has awarded $510K to five regional alternative and clean technology companies and three university-based research projects.
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NSF International Research Experiencefor Student (IRES) in Plasma Medicine
10 am Monday, June 28th, 2010
@ A.J. Drexel Plasma Institute (HESS Labs #117)
3400 Lancaster Avenue, across from 711.
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Article from WFRV news, published June 7th, 2010.
Plasma energy could be the next big medical breakthrough
Story Created: Jun 7, 2010 at 5:47 PM CDT
Call it science fiction, made reality in the near future. Some new energy devices containing plasma may help heal.
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Channel 6 ABC Action News WPVI-TV Philadelphia news piece:
Sunday, May 16, 2010
by Ali Gorman, R.N.
PHILADELPHIA – May 16, 2010 (WPVI) – Some scientists in Philadelphia are venturing into a new medical frontier.
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HOSPITAL workers often have to wash their hands dozens of times a day — and may need a minute or more to do the process right, by scrubbing with soap and water. But new devices could reduce the task to just four seconds, cleaning even hard-to-reach areas under fingernails.
Read more on the New York Times page:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/business/14novel.html
Florida’s Channel 4 FOX news posts a story about Plasma Medicine:
If you’re a fan of science fiction, you know how their futuristic plasma wands can heal wounds. But now, innovative researchers are pioneering plasma energy devices that will take us a step closer to those fictional healers.
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The GKRS is a special session organized around the research of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and other scientists with similar levels of experience to present research in a collegial environment. Held over the Saturday and Sunday directly preceding the GRC, the GKRS features ten talks and two poster sessions, exclusively presented and attended by students, post-docs, and early stage scientists.
The 2010 GKRS on Plasma Processing Science will highlight three areas of research: Plasmas in Nanomaterials, Plasmas in Medicine, and Analysis of Plasmas. The Seminar will be held July 10th -11th 2010 at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire, the site of the associated Gordon Research Conference which begins the evening of July 11th. A detailed oral presentation schedule will be available in mid-May. Applications for the GKRS are due by June 19th, and all attendees will present a talk or a poster. More information about the seminar can be found:
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We are pleased to inform that article ‘Application of nanosecond-pulsed dielectric barrier discharge for biomedical treatment of topographically non-uniform surfaces’ has been selected to be part of Journal of Physics D’s Highlights of 2009 collection. As part of this collection, article will be free to read until the end of 2010 to gain maximum exposure and readership.
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What is Plasma? In basic science, children are taught there are three states of matter – solid, liquid and gas. Plasma is now described as the fourth state of matter. It’s formed when energy is applied to a gas, freeing some electrons from the gas atoms. This process creates positively charged atoms (called ions) and negatively charged electrons, forming an ionized gas.
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Dr. Ken Lau (PI, CBE) and co-investigators Drs. Alexander Fridman (MEM), Vadym Mochalin (MSE) and Giuseppe Palmese (CBE), received a $1,125,000 NSF-MRI grant to acquire a state-of-the-art X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) surface analysis instrumentation system. The XPS system will be an openly accessible multi-user shared instrumentation facility at Drexel University. It will serve as a focal point for enabling research and training activities for the scientific community in the Greater Philadelphia region. At Drexel, major research initiatives including the A.J. Drexel Plasma Institute and the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute will be strengthened by the XPS system in their studies related to sustainable energy, biomedical technology, nanotechnology and advanced materials.
