Sharp Air Purifier Review – Efficacy of Plasmacluster Ion Technology

Small at heart but enormous in potential impact best describes Plasmacluster Ion technology which runs on a tiny dynamo. Our Sharp air purifier review will now highlight the enhanced high concentration Plasmacluster Ion generator. Measuring only 57mm by 28.5mm by 15.5mm, the little gadget produces the critical reactive agents.

Overview of Plasmacluster Ion Technology

Positive and negative voltages are applied to discharge electrodes inside the Plasmacluster Ion generator to produce plasma. Plasma is recognized as the 4th state of matter after liquid, gas, solid. A partly ionized gas-like state, it contains free electrons that are not bound to a molecule or atom. Disintegration of water molecules that permeate plasma lead to the creation of negative ions (oxygen) and positive ions (hydrogen). Other water molecules in the air cluster around the hydrogen ions and oxygen ions forming the distinctive and stable Plasmacluster Ions. Ultra reactive and extremely unstable hydroxyl radicals are created as soon as Plasmacluster Ions come into contact with any pathogens. This characteristic causes the hydroxyl radical to combine with hydrogen atoms on the surface membrane of the pathogen. Incredibly, the product is a deactivated pathogen and a harmless by-product, water. An ideal solution! But is it real or imaginary?

Plasmacluster Ion – Fact or Science Fiction?

A reliable Sharp air purifier review brush away the inevitable question – are Plasmacluster Ions fact or fiction? In common with many other nanotechnology products, Plasmacluster Ions are invisible to the human eye. And the individual air purifier user has no means to verify its authenticity. Individuals really have no alternative but to base their decisions on tests results of Plasmacluster Ion applications. This is done in 2 ways, in the laboratory (efficacy test) and in the real world (efficiency test).

Sharp, as an established corporation with a successful track record has anticipated these concerns. In this regard, Sharp has developed the art of academic marketing. This is a collaborative effort between Sharp and academia with the objective of reputable institutions testing and producing scientific data to confirm the claims made with regard to Plasmacluster Ions. Scientific data produced by academia becomes the basis for introducing new products by Sharp. Sharp has fine-tuned the definition of effectiveness into efficacy and efficiency. Between 2000 and July 2009, it focused on efficacy testing. It has begun and is developing efficiency testing with end users of Plasmacluster Ion technology.

Plasmacluster Ion – Certification at Molecular Levels

Delving deep for this Sharp air purifier review, we noted that Sharp is going all out in the industry by leading in efficacy and efficiency testing. Sharp announced on 17 November 2004 the scientific findings of Professor Gerhard Artmann of the Department of Cell Biophysics and Bioengineering, University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Through the use of an electron microscope, Professor Artmann (a cellular engineering expert) verified that Plasmacluster Ions damaged more than 60 proteins on the surface cell membranes of pathogens leading to inactivation of both viruses and bacteria.

A finding of great significance was that the pathogens’ cell DNA is not affected by Plasmacluster Ions which do not pass through the surface membrane. As DNA destruction is not relied upon to inactivate pathogens, unlike some other competing air purification technologies, a clear advantage is claimed. Without quite saying so, the dangers of cancer from DNA annihilation is clearly alluded to for users of other air purification technologies.

Plasmacluster Ion – Efficacy Testing

This current Sharp air purifier review condenses in one place the efficacy tests on pathogens conducted by Sharp. From September 2000 to July 2009, efficacy tests have proven that Plasmacluster Ions destroy 28 different kinds of harmful airborne pathogens. Of the virulent pathogens, the most significant are the lethal SARS virus, the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus, a variant of the potentially fatal H1N1 virus which re-appeared in Mexico in 2009 and MRSA, the resistant bacterium that causes devastating infections in hospitalized patients.

The polio virus and the coxsackie virus which causes the common cold are also destroyed by Plasmacluster Ions. Equally susceptible have been bacteria like serrata bacterium, enterococcus, staphylococcus, sarcina, micrococcus, bacillus subtilis, pseudomonas, escherichia coli, white staphylococcus and candida. Pollen, allergens, mites are also effectively destroyed together with stachybotrys, penicillium, mucor, cladosporium, alternaria and aspergillus.

The organizations, some of which conducted multiple tests, were:

- Harvard School of Public Health, USA

- Retroscreen Virology, Ltd,London, UK

- Asthma Society of Canada

- University of Lübeck, Germany

- CT&T, Aachen University of Applied Science, Germany

- Seoul University, Korea

- Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China

- Ishikawa Health Service Association, Japan

- Kitasato Research Center of Environmental Sciences, Japan

- Kitasato Institute, Medical Center Hospital, Japan

- Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, Japan

Osaka City University Medical School conducted the last reported efficacy test that validated the inhibitory properties of Plasmacluster Ions on allergic reactions caused by mite allergens (mite feces and dead mites).

Wrapping up our Sharp air purifier review with regard to efficacy testing, we note the importance of the GLP (Good Laboratory Practices), an OECD standard that lends weight to test results, status of the testing organizations. GLP status has to be renewed every 3 years. An important factor, yet this fact is often given no weight by critics of academic marketing and air purification technologies. Another crucial fact is that it is definitely possible for the work of a GLP laboratory to be peer reviewed scientifically. The highly-esteemed scientific peer review is the final missing link that will transform the air purification industry, including Sharp’s Plasmacluster Ion technology!

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