Charged plasma

If the gas of charges (plasma) is sufficiently dilute, we could hope a priori that its equation of state would be described by the virial expansion ... 

A number of open questions arise in this context, like the stability of the charged plasmas in such a magnetic field, or the achievable well depth in relation to the energy distribution of the produced antihydrogen atoms using different recombination scenarios. An active R D program will be necessary to clarify... 

From collisionality considerations in fusion edge plasmas one can conclude that a collisional transport model for the charged plasma components is adequate at least for transport along the field lines. By contrast, core plasma transport in the only relevant transport directions there, across the magnetic field, is often studied on the basis of the Vlasov-equation (see below), e.g., in the drift-wave theory of plasma transport. 

Adsorption-mediated transport is triggered by an electrostatic interaction between a positively charged substance, usually a charge moiety of a peptide, and the negatively charged plasma membrane surface (i.e., glycocalyx) [58]. 

Plasma Species and Factors Active for Sterilization Effects of Electric Fields, Particularly Related to Charged Plasma Particles... 

The term plasma refers to a partially ionized gas, composed essentially of photons, ions, and free electrons as well as atoms and molecules in their fundamental or excited states. Because of the presence of free charges, plasma is electrically conductive and follows the law of electromagnetism. Thus, a static electric field, for example, will tend to separate and accelerate plasma charges. Overall, however, plasma is neutral since the number of negative-charge carriers is equal to the number of the positive ones. 

Anticoagulants, e.g., heparin and hirudin, antimicrobials, cell adhesion peptides, cell adhesion proteins, negative surface charge plasma polymerized coating, thrombolytics Tissue Adhesives... 

Glucose oxidase was also adsorbed onto hydrophilic and positively-charged plasma-polymerised thin film surfaces, being characterised by AFM, QCM and electrochemistry [67], also functioning as a glucose biosensor. 

The ECRIS is the most popular ion source today. It is able to produce highly charged plasmas and ion beams from a wide variety of elements with high intensity both in continuous and pulsed modes. The most advanced ECR sources produce more than 1 mA of middle-charged heavy-ion... 

Reprinted with permission from Finke, B., Luethen, F., Schroeder, K., Mueller, P.D., Bergemann, C., Frant, M., Ohl, A., Nebe, B.J., 2007. The effect of positively charged plasma polymerization on initial osteoblastic focal adhesion on titanium surfaces. Biomaterials 28, 4521-4534. 

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