There are currently over 2000 peer-reviewed scientific articles on the efficiency of blue light in eliminating different microbes. On this page, you can find links to review articles that summarise the findings until early 2022 as well as the most interesting new publications.
List of main review articles on blue light
The following review articles give a scientific background on how blue light affects microbes and provide long lists of references to papers that have tested different microbes.
- M. Hessling, B. Spellerberg, K. Hoenes.
Photoinactivation of bacteria by endogenous photosensitizers and exposure to visible light of different wavelengths – a review on existing data. FEMS Microbiology Letters, Volume 364, Issue 2, January 2017.
https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnw270 - Leon G. Leanse, Carolina dos Anjos, Sana Mushtaq, Tianhong Dai.
Antimicrobial blue light: A ‘Magic Bullet’ for the 21st century and beyond’. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews 180 (2022) 114057
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addr.2021.114057 - Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Murray, C. K., Hamblin, M. R., Hooper, D. C., & Dai, T..
Antimicrobial blue light inactivation of pathogenic microbes: State of the art. Drug Resistance Updates. (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drup.2017.10.002
Articles on contemporary or otherwise important topics
- Leanse LG, Goh XS, Cheng JX, Hooper DC, Dai T.
Dual-wavelength photo-killing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. JCI Insight. 2020 Jun 4;5(11):e134343. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.134343. PMID: 32493838; PMCID: PMC7308062.
https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/134343 - R. Rathnasinghe, S. Jangra, L. Miorin, M. Schotsasert, C. Yahnke, A. Garcίa-Sastre
Lighting a better future: the virucidal effects of 405 nm visible light on SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A virus. bioRxiv 2021.03.14.435337; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.14.435337 - M. Hessling, B. Lau and P. Vatter.
Review of Virus Inactivation by Visible Light
https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/9/2/113/pdf
Articles on how photocatalytic coating affects microbes:
- Howard A. Foster, Iram B. Ditta, Sajnu Varghese & Alex Steele
Mini-Review: Photocatalytic disinfection using titanium dioxide: spectrum and mechanism of antimicrobial activity. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology volume 90, pages 1847–1868 (2011)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00253-011-3213-7 - Je-Wen Liou & Hsin-Hou Chang
Review: Bactericidal Effects and Mechanisms of Visible Light-Responsive Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysts on Pathogenic Bacteria. Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis volume 60, pages 267–275 (2012)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00005-012-0178-x
