<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=139szw_1FPD8bkz00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=139szw_1FPD8bkz00" width="1200" height="600" >GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - In this week’s Tech Tuesday, our partners at UF Innovate and SCAD Media feature SurfPlasma, a local biotech company developing plasma-based decontamination technologies. Dr. Subrata Roy discusses how plasma technology can be used to decontaminate water and sterilize medical devices without heat or steam.“How is this startup using plasma as a decontamination method? Let’s learn more. Dr. Roy, tell us a little bit more about who you are and what you do,” said Angela Martinez Aponte, host of UF Innovate.“I’m Subrata Roy. I’m from [UF’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering]. I’m a professor there, and I’m also the director of [the Applied Physics Research Group] at UF. I’m also the founder and president of SurfPlasma. SurfPlasma is [a] local micro biotechnology company that helps decontaminate surfaces, cleans water and air, and medical devices,” said Dr. Subrata Roy, professor at the University of Florida.“Could you give me an example of how you use plasma to sterilize things?” asked Aponte.“Sure. So, for example, if you take... I mean, we use plasma to sterilize medical devices and we also use plasma to clean water. [In] this case, this is what we call PurplePure. Just think of it as an input, output. Water comes in, and there is a plasma generator, water gets basically decontaminated, and then clean water comes out from the other end. What is good about this is this is a very compact device as compared to other sterilizers, and it requires very low power. So, if you think of the standard decontamination device or sterilization device that’s out there, like autoclaves or ETO, autoclaves [take] at least an hour, and then it’s heat and steam. For our device, we don’t need heat or steam, you don’t need extra plumbing, and it kills bacteria or [viruses] and other germs within 30 minutes. So, as compared to one hour, it kills within 30 minutes. Also, because our devices are compact and portable, you can use [them] in triage situations where in general other devices are not going to be useful or practical. So, this product is definitely better, faster, and cheaper. What we need is to scale it up so that we can make it more accessible for everyday usage, for household applications, and obviously for medical applications. So, better, faster and cheaper. That’s the usefulness of this device,” said Dr. Roy.</div></body>

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - In this week’s Tech Tuesday, our partners at UF Innovate and SCAD Media feature SurfPlasma, a local biotech company developing plasma-based decontamination technologies. Dr. Subrata Roy discusses how plasma technology can be used to decontaminate water and sterilize medical devices without heat or steam. “How...

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