{"id":106174,"date":"2020-04-28T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/hk-scientists-say-new-antiviral-coating-can-protect-surfaces-for-90-days"},"modified":"2020-04-28T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T23:11:00","slug":"hk-scientists-say-new-antiviral-coating-can-protect-surfaces-for-90-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/hk-scientists-say-new-antiviral-coating-can-protect-surfaces-for-90-days","title":{"rendered":"HK scientists say new antiviral coating can protect surfaces for 90 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hk-scientists-say-new-antiviral-coating-can-protect-surfaces-for-90-days2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG (Reuters) \u2014 Researchers at a Hong Kong university say they have developed an antiviral coating which could provide 90 days of \u201csignificant\u201d protection against bacteria and viruses such as the one causing COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The coating, called MAP-1, took 10 years to develop and can be sprayed on surfaces that are frequently used by the public, such as elevator buttons and handrails, researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese places are frequently touched, and, at the same time, serve as a very effective medium for transmission of diseases,\u201d said HKUST Adjunct Professor Joseph Kwan, one of the chief researchers in the team that developed the product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG (Reuters) \u2014 Researchers at a Hong Kong university say they have developed an antiviral coating which could provide 90 days of \u201csignificant\u201d protection against bacteria and viruses such as the one causing COVID-19. The coating, called MAP-1, took 10 years to develop and can be sprayed on surfaces that are frequently used by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106174","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}