{"id":105019,"date":"2020-04-09T08:04:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/engineer-uses-metal-oxide-nanomaterials-deposited-on-cloth-to-wipe-out-microbes"},"modified":"2020-04-09T08:04:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:04:41","slug":"engineer-uses-metal-oxide-nanomaterials-deposited-on-cloth-to-wipe-out-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/engineer-uses-metal-oxide-nanomaterials-deposited-on-cloth-to-wipe-out-microbes","title":{"rendered":"Engineer uses metal-oxide nanomaterials deposited on cloth to wipe out microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineer-uses-metal-oxide-nanomaterials-deposited-on-cloth-to-wipe-out-microbes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to make highly sensitive sensors to measure sugar and other vital signs of human health, Iowa State University\u2019s Sonal Padalkar figured out how to deposit nanomaterials on cloth and paper.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback from a peer-reviewed paper published by <i>ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering<\/i> describing her new fabrication technology mentioned the metal-oxide nanomaterials the assistant professor of mechanical engineering was working with\u2014including <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/zinc+oxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">zinc oxide<\/a>, cerium oxide and copper oxide, all at scales down to billionths of a meter\u2014also have <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/antimicrobial+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antimicrobial properties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI might as well see if I can do something else with this technology,\u201d Padalkar said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s how I started studying antimicrobial uses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to make highly sensitive sensors to measure sugar and other vital signs of human health, Iowa State University\u2019s Sonal Padalkar figured out how to deposit nanomaterials on cloth and paper. Feedback from a peer-reviewed paper published by ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering describing her new fabrication technology mentioned the metal-oxide nanomaterials the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,38,1495,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-health","category-nanotechnology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}