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The first Therapeutic ROS and Immunity in Cancer (TRIC) meeting was organized by the excellence research center ZIK plasmatis (with its previous Frontiers in Redox Biochemistry and Medicine (FiRBaM) and Young Professionals’ Workshop in Plasma Medicine (YPWPM) workshop series in Northern Germany) and the excellence research program ONKOTHER-H (Rostock/Greifswald, Germany). The meeting showcased cutting-edge research and liberated discussions on the application of therapeutic ROS and immunology in cancer treatment, primarily focusing on gas plasma technology. The 2-day hybrid meeting took place in Greifswald and online from 15–16 July 2021, facilitating a wide range of participants totaling 66 scientists from 12 countries and 5 continents. The meeting aimed at bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines, including chemists, biochemists, biologists, engineers, immunologists, physicists, and physicians for interdisciplinary discussions on using therapeutic ROS and medical gas plasma technology in cancer therapy with the four main sessions: “Plasma, Cancer, Immunity”, “Plasma combination therapies”, “Plasma risk assessment and patients studies”, and “Plasma mechanisms and treated liquids in cancer”. This conference report outlines the abstracts of attending scientists submitted to this meeting.
AbstractThe efficient operation of a tokamak is limited by several constraints, such as the transition to high confinement or the density limits occurring in both confinement regimes. These particular boundaries of operation are derived in terms of a combination of dimensionless parameters describing interchange-drift-Alfvén turbulence without any free adjustable parameter. The derived boundaries describe the operational space at the separatrix of the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak, which is presented in terms of an electron density and temperature existence diagram. The derived density limits are compared against Greenwald scaling. The power threshold and role of ion heat flux for the transition to high confinement are discussed.
This study evaluated the impact of a defined plasma treated water (PTW) when applied to various stages within fresh-cut endive processing. The quality characteristic responses were investigated to establish the impact of the PTW unit processes and where PTW may be optimally applied in a model process line to retain or improve produce quality. Different stages of application of PTW within the washing process were investigated and compared to tap water and chlorine dioxide. Fresh-cut endive (Cichorium endivia L.) samples were analyzed for retention of food quality characteristics. Measurements included color, texture, and nitrate quantification. Effects on tissue surface and cell organelles were observed through scanning electron and atomic force microscopy. Overall, the endive quality characteristics were retained by incorporating PTW in the washing process. Furthermore, promising results for color and texture characteristics were observed, which were supported by the microscopic assays of the vegetal tissue. While ion chromatography detected high concentrations of nitrite and nitrate in PTW, these did not affect the nitrate concentration of the lettuce tissue post-processing and were below the concentrations within EU regulations. These results provide a pathway to scale up the industrial application of PTW to improve and retain quality characteristic retention of fresh leafy products, whilst also harnessing the plasma functionalized water as a process intervention for reducing microbial load at multiple points, whether on the food surface, within the process water or on food-processing surfaces.
Surface Stoichiometry and Depth Profile of Tix-CuyNz Thin Films Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering
(2021)
Ion trajectories have been simulated for an assembly of a linear quadrupole ion-filter and a linear Paul trap with additional pin electrodes for MS SPIDOC, a project in preparation for the study of biomolecules by single-particle imaging with X-ray pulses. The ion-optical components are based on digital RF guiding and trapping fields. In order to carefully handle biomolecules over a wide mass-over-charge range, the module presented consists of separate components for filtering and accumulation/trapping in order to select the ions of interest and to convert the beam from a continuous ion source to ion bunches, respectively, as required for the experiments downstream. The present analysis focuses on the transmission efficiency and mass resolving power of the filter, as well as the buffer-gas-pressure-dependent ion capture and thermalization in the trap for the example of a mass-to-charge ratio equivalent to hemoglobin 15+ ions. The resulting optimized ion bunch delivered by the assembly is characterized.
AbstractWe propose a new scattering mechanism of Rydberg excitons, i.e., those with high principal quantum numbers, namely scattering by coupled LO phonon-plasmon modes, which becomes possible due to small differences in energies of the states due to different quantum defects. Already in very low-density electron–hole plasmas these provide a substantial contribution to the excitonic linewidth. This effect should allow determining plasma densities by a simple line shape analysis. Whenever one expects that low-density electron–hole plasma is present the plasmon induced broadening is of high significance and must be taken into account in the interpretation.
Modern space missions depend more and more on electric propulsion devices for in-space
flights. The superior efficiency by ionizing the feedgas and propelling them using electric
fields with regard to conventional chemical thrusters makes them a great alternative. To
find optimized thruster designs is of high importance for industrial applications. Building
new prototypes is very expensive and takes a lot of time. A cheaper alternative is to rely
on computer simulations to get a deeper understanding of the underlying physics. In order
to gain a realistic simulation the whole system has to be taken into account including the
channel and the plume region. Because numerical models have to resolve the smallest time
and spatial scales, simulations take up an unfeasible amount of time. Usually a self-similarity
scaling scheme is used to greatly speed up these simulations. Until now the limits of this
method have not been thoroughly discussed. Therefore, this thesis investigates the limits
and the influence of the self-similarity scheme on simulations of ion thrusters. The aim
is to validate the self-similarity scaling and to look for application oriented tools to use
for thruster design optimization. As a test system the High-Efficiency-Multistage-Plasma
thruster (HEMP-T) is considered.
To simulate the HEMP-T a fully kinetic method is necessary. For low-temperature plasmas,
as found in the HEMP-T, the Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method has proven to be the best
choice. Unfortunately, PIC requires high spatial and temporal resolution and is hence
computationally costly. This limits the size of the devices PIC is able to simulate as well
as limiting the exploration of a wider design space of different thrusters. The whole system
is physically described using the Boltzmann and Maxwell equations. Using these system
of equations invariants can be derived. In the past, these invariants were used to derive a
self-similarity scaling law, maintaining the exact solution for the plasma volume, which is
applicable to ion thrusters and other plasmas. With the aid of the self-similarity scaling
scheme the computation cost can be reduced drastically. The drawback of the geometrical
scaling of the system is, that the plasma density and therefore the Debye length does not
scale. This expands the length at which charge separation occurs in respect to the system
size. In this thesis the limits of this scaling are investigated and the influence of the scaling
at higher scaling factors is studied. The specific HEMP-T design chosen for these studies is
the DP1.
Because the application of scaling laws is limited by the increasing influence of charge separation with increased scaling, PIC simulations still are computationally costly. Another approach to explore a wider design space is given using Multi-Objective-Design-Optimization
(MDO). MDO uses different tools to generate optimized thruster designs in a comparatively
short amount of time. This new approach is validated using the PIC method. During this
validation the drawback of the MDO surfaces. The MDO calculations are not self-consistent
and are based on empirical values of old thruster designs as input parameters, which not
necessarily match the new optimized thruster design. By simulating the optimized thruster
design with PIC and recalculate the former input parameters, a more realistic thruster design is achieved. This process can be repeated iteratively. The combination of self-consistent
PIC simulations with the performance of MDO is a great way to generate optimized thruster
designs in a comparatively short amount of time. The proof of concept of such a combination
is the pinnacle of this thesis.
In this thesis, the transport properties of topological insulators are investigated. In contrast to trivial insulators, topological insulators possess conducting boundary states which cross the bulk energy gap that separates the highest occupied electronic band from the lowest unoccupied band. The materials used in this thesis are three-dimensional topological insulators with time-reversal symmetry. Their associated helical surface states are protected against elastic backscattering by Kramers degeneracy. The unique properties of the helical surface states can be utilized to generate spin-polarized currents at the surface of topological insulators and to control their propagation direction. This makes them a promising material class for the field of spintronics.
Here, we perform photocurrent scans of topological insulator Hall bar and nanowire devices. From these measurements, we obtained two-dimensional maps of the polarization-independent and helicity-dependent components of the photocurrents.
We find that the polarization-independent component is dominated by the Seebeck effect and thus driven by thermoelectric currents. On the other hand, the helicity-dependent component is driven by the spin-polarized currents that emerge from the topologically non-trivial helical surface states via the circular photogalvanic effect.
First and foremost, our experiments demonstrate that topological insulator nanowires provide a promising platform for the generation of spin-polarized currents, whose direction can be controlled via the helicity of the excitation light. They also highlight the importance of analysing the spatial distribution of the photocurrent, as we observe a strong enhancement of the spin-polarized current and the thermoelectric current at the interface between the nanowire and the metallic contacts. As our analysis shows, the thermoelectric current is enhanced by the Schottky effect and the spin-polarized current is amplified by the spin Nernst effect. In addition, the spin Nernst effect is also present in Hall bar devices and manifest as an enhancement of the spin-polarized current along the Hall bar sides.
Three-dimensionally extended dusty plasmas containing mixtures of two particle species of different size have been investigated on parabolic flights. To distinguish the species even at small size disparities, one of the species is marked with a fluorescent dye, and a two-camera video microscopy setup is used for position determination and tracking. Phase separation is found even when the size disparity is below 5%. Particles are tracked to obtain the diffusion flux, and resulting diffusion coefficients are in the expected range for a phase separation process driven by plasma forces. Additionally, a measure for the strength of the phase separation is presented that allows to quickly characterize measurements. There is a clear correlation between size disparity and phase separation strength.
Molecular dynamics simulations of binary dusty plasmas have been performed and their behavior with respect to the phase separation process has been analyzed. Here as well, it is found that even the smallest size disparities lead to phase separation. The separation is due to the force imbalance on the two species and the separation becomes weaker with increasing mean particle size.
In the second part of the thesis, Experiments on self-excited dust-density waves under various magnetic fields have been performed. For that purpose, different dust clouds of micrometer-sized dust particles were trapped in the sheath of a radio frequency discharge. The self-excited dust-density waves were studied for magnetic field strengths ranging from 0 mT to about 2 T. It was observed that the waves are very coherent at the lowest fields (B < 20 mT). At medium fields (20 mT < B < 300 mT), the waves seem to feature a complex competition between different wave modes before, at even higher fields, the waves become more coherent again. At the highest fields (B > 1 T), the wave activity is diminished. The corresponding wave frequencies and wavenumbers have been derived. From the comparison of the measured wave properties and a model dispersion relation, the ion density and the dust charge are extracted. Both quantities show only little variation with magnetic field strength.