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University of Padua: cold plasma destroys coronavirus

The non-thermal plasma or cold plasma technology, present in all Jonix devices, is capable of destroying COVID-19. This has been proven by laboratory studies conducted by the University of Padua (Italy).
We have believed in this technology for a long time; we are excited because our devices can really make a difference in the daily life of many people, especially the most fragile ones, as has happened at the Noventa Padovana retirement home, where the air is treated with Jonix systems and there has not been a single case of COVID-19 among the residents, without having to impose a blockade on the operating staff, as in many other retirement homes.

Jonix test by the Department of Molecular Medicine of the University of Padua:

Assessing the effectiveness of a technology against COVID-19 is a very complex process.

First of all, you need a laboratory with an adequate level of safety and in Italy there are very few of them. According to WHO regulations, laboratories handling pathogens such as viruses are divided into biosafety levels (BSLs), which identify all the measures necessary to protect staff, the environment and outsiders.

There are 4 biosafety levels, based on microbiological risk assessment: from the lowest (1) to the highest (4), which indicates the need for maximum containment, when working with pathogens for which there are no definitive treatments yet and which can be lethal to humans. For example, the Ebola virus has a BSL 4.
The Covid-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, requires Biosafety Level 3 laboratories to examine pathogens with airborne transmission potential associated with severe human disease. The Department of Molecular Medicine at the University of Padova, which tested the cold plasma technology present in the Jonix, has a BSL3 classification.

An appropriately sized Jonix device was used for the test to verify its virucidal activity, i.e. its ability to reduce infectious virus particles. The results were clear and demonstrated that our device with NTP technology has effective antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2, with a viral load reduction equal to 99.9999%.

Non-thermal plasma (NTP) effective against coronavirus

What is cold plasma and how does it work against airborne and surface viruses? Clarification: the plasma we are talking about is not blood plasma! We make this clear because many people, perhaps reading quickly, tend to get confused. Cold plasma technology (or non-thermal plasma, NTP) has nothing to do with the blood plasma therapies that have been much discussed in recent months.

Plasma, in chemistry and physics, is an ionised gas, a gaseous mixture of electrons, ions and neutral species. Nothing strange or exotic about it. As the Italian National Research Council explains, 99.9% of the visible matter in the Universe is in a plasma state.

Cold plasma is a plasma activated by a small electric field and is capable of producing reactive oxidising species which, in turn, act on a large number of types of polluting compounds.

The heart of each Jonix device is the actuator: the generator capable of producing the cold plasma, ionising the gas stream.

In very simple terms, we can say that Jonix devices are able to activate the air in the environments in which they are positioned, developing reactive molecules that attack polluting molecules (viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, bacteria, moulds or VOCs) and break them down, rendering them harmless, without releasing any type of chemical substance or residue into the environment!

Jonix anti-virus devices: how best to use them

On one point, we are conclusive: the Jonix devices are effective and we have all the proof, but they must be allowed to do their job well. This means that they must be maintained at all times and be correctly positioned and sized.

A very large or polluted space (saturated with substances or by the presence of many people) requires one or more Jonix devices of adequate power, positioned so that the air flow can spread freely.


How to do it? There are 5 points to remember:

1. With Jonix, you can keep your premises constantly decontaminated and disinfected by keeping your device on while you work or stay in your spaces.

2. Place your appliance correctly; it should be free, (not between shelves, closed in a corner or inside a cabinet). The more central the position, the better the airflow.

3. Choose the unit(s) according to the activity of the environments to be sanitised and their size.

4. Do not place objects on top of the unit.

5. The space to be treated should be as open as possible, without partitions, dividers or high shelves.