Research articles
ScienceAsia 45 (2019): 458-464 |doi:
10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.2019.45.458
Evaluation of the sterilization effect of a new
mercury-free UVC light source
Han Gaoa,b, Tongkuo Yuanb,c, Jian Zhaod, Hongye Liue, Huancai Yina,b,*
ABSTRACT: So far, short-wave UV produced by low-pressure mercury lamps has been widely applied in sterilization,
wastewater treatment, and bioassays, which could be due to its low cost, high conversion efficiency, and small size.
However, metal pollution is caused by the evitable releasing of mercury. In this study, a new mercury-free lamp was
developed, which generated UV light by the electron beam excitation (EBE) of YPO4:Bi3+ under vacuum conditions.
Such lamps emit light at 241 nm and possessed a photoelectric effect. Excellent sterilization effect was obtained in
Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli, in the absence of ozone. These
effects positively correlated with the treatment distances and time. Furthermore, oxidative stress was found to play
a major role in the sterilization process of our light sources, since no production of ozone was detected during each
treatment. After all, EBE lamps could be a promising tool for sterilization, and our results provided the theoretical basis
for its microorganism-killing effects.
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University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 China |
| b |
CAS Key Lab of Bio-Medical Diagnostics, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215163 China |
| c |
School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200433 China |
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NovelUv Co., Ltd, Shanghai 201108 China |
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Clinical Laboratory, Changchun Center Hospital, Jilin, Changchun 130051 China |
* Corresponding author, E-mail: yinhc@sibet.ac.cn
Received 13 Mar 2019, Accepted 29 Oct 2019
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