To fulfill fresh air demand indoors without opening windows, especially for those working in suffocated basements, UK researchers have developed an air disinfector that pumps a continual stream of reactive hydrogen radicals into the atmosphere by killing microbes within minutes.
As scientists are already aware that microbes can be killed via hydroxyl radicals, the highly reactive agents constantly produced via natural reactions between airborne ozone and organic scented chemicals from plants such as pine trees. Therefore, the scientists recreated this effect by using a customized flower vase-sized device that constantly generates the radicals.
To generate the effect, the device brings oxygen in to expose it with electric currents and to produce a cold plasma rich in ozone. The hydroxyl radicals are created by constant reaction with ozone and via pre-loaded supplies of scented chemicals, known as terpenes, in cartridges that require refill every month.
But the ozone and terpenes are preserved inside the device and do not comes out into the room.
Via: Medlaunches
