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RNA Identification and Detection of Nucleic Acids as Aerosols in Air Samples by Means of Photon and Electron Interactions

Version 1 : Received: 30 April 2021 / Approved: 10 May 2021 / Online: 10 May 2021 (15:35:15 CEST)

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Adlish, J.I.; Neuhold, P.; Surrente, R.; Tagliapietra, L.J. RNA Identification and Detection of Nucleic Acids as Aerosols in Air Samples by Means of Photon and Electron Interactions. Instruments 2021, 5, 23. Adlish, J.I.; Neuhold, P.; Surrente, R.; Tagliapietra, L.J. RNA Identification and Detection of Nucleic Acids as Aerosols in Air Samples by Means of Photon and Electron Interactions. Instruments 2021, 5, 23.

Abstract

This study presents a methodology to reveal traces of viral particles, as aerosol with known chemical and molecular structure, in a sample by means of photon and electron interactions. The method is based on Monte Carlo simulations and on the analysis of photon-electron fluxes-spectra through energy channels counts as a function of different aerosol viral concentrations in the air sample and looking at the peculiar photon/electron interactions with the potential abnormal atomic hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), carbon (C), and phosphorus (P) compositions present in the air sample as a function of living and nonliving matter with PO4 group RNA/DNA strands in a cluster configuration.

Keywords

viral particles; radiobiology; RNA detection; microbiology; matter identification; particle physics; physical modelling; particle accelerators in environmental studies

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biophysics

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