Adaptive Surface Technologies

A few weeks ago, I happened to walk by a local factory in Cambridge. Factories in Cambridge are fairly rare. It's in a residential area that I've walked through a bunch of times. I had somehow never noticed it before. It turns out to be the home of Adaptive Surface Technologies. They makes coatings that stop things from sticking to them.

Currently (2020-05-08), it looks like they're developing the opposite of that to help with the coronavirus. They're making coatings that they hope will bind to antiviral disinfectants. So, surfaces with this coating will retain disinfectants longer, which will help with exposing coronavirus particles to the disinfectants.

A coronavirus particle needs to be in contact with a disinfectant for at least 30 seconds to be destroyed. So, if this works, it will help keep surfaces ready to disinfect for longer. They don't say how much longer, just that it would last longer than the application of disinfectant from a wipe.

See also:

• Sky and Telescope Magazine

Links:

name: Adaptive Surface Technologies COVID-19 response url: https://adaptivesurface.tech/covid-19-response/

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