{"id":106633,"date":"2020-05-06T02:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T09:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/israeli-masks-designed-with-unique-anti-pathogen-fabric-enter-us-market"},"modified":"2020-05-06T02:22:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T09:22:52","slug":"israeli-masks-designed-with-unique-anti-pathogen-fabric-enter-us-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/israeli-masks-designed-with-unique-anti-pathogen-fabric-enter-us-market","title":{"rendered":"Israeli masks designed with unique anti-pathogen fabric enter US market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-masks-designed-with-unique-anti-pathogen-fabric-enter-us-market.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I shared about this startup in January, now it\u2019s hitting US Markets. The Israeli startup Sonovia, which sped up efforts to manufacture masks using its anti-pathogen fabric at the start of the coronavirus crisis in Israel, has launched commercial sales.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cWhen coronavirus started, we were an Israeli startup,\u201d Dr. Jason Migdal, a research scientist with Sonovia, told The Jerusalem Post. \u201cNow, we are a commercial business that is having success internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sonovia developed an almost-permanent, ultrasonic, fabric-finishing technology for mechanical impregnation of zinc oxide nanoparticles into textiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe technology is based upon a physical phenomenon called cavitation,\u201d said Migdal. \u201cSound waves are used to physically infuse desired chemicals onto the structure area of materials, enhancing them with clinically proven antiviral and antibacterial properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Migdal explained that the novel coronavirus, also known as SARS-CoV-2, is spread via aerosol and direct contact. Therefore, antiviral personal protective equipment is \u201cof crucial importance to combat the transmission of this viral epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shared about this startup in January, now it\u2019s hitting US Markets. The Israeli startup Sonovia, which sped up efforts to manufacture masks using its anti-pathogen fabric at the start of the coronavirus crisis in Israel, has launched commercial sales. \u201cWhen coronavirus started, we were an Israeli startup,\u201d Dr. Jason Migdal, a research scientist with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106633","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=106633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}