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Photocatalytic Oxygenation

A new breakthrough in the oxygenation of blood known as Photocatalytic Oxygenation was developed by Dr Paul A Thangaraj, Consultant Cardiothoracic surgeon, Apollo Hospital and Prof A Subramanyam, Department of Physics, IIT Madras. They have developed a method of splitting the water in the blood into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen thus formed binds into the blood and is delivered to the tissues effectively circumventing the lung - reported ChennaiOnline. It further reports, they used thin film technology and developed a nano porous layer of titanium dioxide and indium tin oxide that is only about 500 nano meter thick (approximately 1/1000th of the thickness of human hair) and UV light to demonstrate effective oxygenation of human blood for the 'first time in the world.' They conducted about 50 experiments using the new method which demonstrated consistent oxygenation, the material were bio-compatible and there was no damage to blood cells and platelets. The results of the experiments were published in the American Society for Artificial internal organs (ASAIO) this July and the findings presented at the 53rd Annual Conference of ASAIO held in Chicago in June.
Source: ChennaiOnline, Breakthrough in oxygenation of blood, August 10 2007
 
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