London, Nov 27: Scientists have designed a prototype device that kills germs from hands, feet and even underarms in a jiffy without harming the skin.
The prototype device can kill off bacteria, viruses, and fungi in just seconds by creating Plasma, commonly known as the fourth state of matter besides solid, liquid and gas.
Plasma is a sea of atoms that produces a cocktail of chemicals in air which kill bacteria but are harmless to skin.
An exposure to the plasma of only about 12 seconds reduces the incidence of bacteria, viruses, and fungi on hands by a factor of a million, lead researcher Gregor Morfill wrote in New Journal of Physics.
“It’s actually similar to what our own immune system does,” said Morfill of Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.
–PTI