SHARP Business Systems (India) Pvt Ltd, a wholly owned Indian subsidiary of SHARP Corporation Japan, known worldwide for its unique technology products and solutions, announced that Sharp Air purifiers with Plasmacluster technology (PCI) has been found vastly effective against airborne novel Coronavirus. The advanced study was conducted at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, a world-renowned research institute in the United States.
In this airborne virus study, a highly concentrated solution of the Omicron BA.1 variant, a mutated strain of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), was sprayed into a 102L test box in the form of an aerosol followed by releasing Plasmacluster ions (ion density approximately 25,000 pcs/cm3) to verify the effectiveness of reducing airborne virus. <
The results showed a drastic reduction of the virus infectious titer (99.3% reduction after 15 minutes of exposure), indicating that Plasmacluster technology is vastly effective against mutated and highly infectious airborne Omicron variants.