{"id":106504,"date":"2020-05-04T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/photocatalysis-could-be-used-to-inactivate-coronaviruses"},"modified":"2020-05-04T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:05:11","slug":"photocatalysis-could-be-used-to-inactivate-coronaviruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/photocatalysis-could-be-used-to-inactivate-coronaviruses","title":{"rendered":"Photocatalysis Could Be Used to Inactivate Coronaviruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photocatalysis-could-be-used-to-inactivate-coronaviruses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON, May 1, 2020 \u2014 Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their wastewater-treatment technology to capture and deactivate the virus that causes COVID-19. Their chemical-free nanotechnology, introduced earlier this year as a way to kill bacterial \u201csuperbugs\u201d and degrade their antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater, will use graphitic carbon nitride to selectively adsorb viruses and then disable them by activating nearby catalysts with light. The team believes that this photocatalytic approach to disinfection \u2014 what it calls the \u201ctrap-and-zap\u201d treatment approach \u2014 could be used to recognize coronaviruses that cause not only COVID-19 but also MERS and SARS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, May 1, 2020 \u2014 Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their wastewater-treatment technology to capture and deactivate the virus that causes COVID-19. Their chemical-free nanotechnology, introduced earlier this year as a way to kill bacterial \u201csuperbugs\u201d and degrade their antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater, will use graphitic carbon nitride to selectively adsorb viruses and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106504","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=106504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}