{"id":132894,"date":"2021-12-22T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/coating-surfaces-with-a-thin-layer-of-copper-has-the-potential-to-kill-the-virus-causing-covid-19-faster"},"modified":"2021-12-22T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:22:20","slug":"coating-surfaces-with-a-thin-layer-of-copper-has-the-potential-to-kill-the-virus-causing-covid-19-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/coating-surfaces-with-a-thin-layer-of-copper-has-the-potential-to-kill-the-virus-causing-covid-19-faster","title":{"rendered":"Coating surfaces with a thin layer of copper has the potential to kill the virus causing COVID-19 faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coating-surfaces-with-a-thin-layer-of-copper-has-the-potential-to-kill-the-virus-causing-covid-19-faster2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered that using a thin-film coating of copper or copper compounds on surfaces could enhance copper\u2019s ability to inactivate or destroy the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In a study that began soon after the pandemic hit in March 2020, University of Waterloo engineering graduate students investigated how six different thin metal and oxide coatings interacted with HCov-229E, a coronavirus that is genetically like SARS-CoV-2 but safer to work with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile there was already some data out there on the lifetime of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/virus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">virus<\/a> on common-touch surfaces like stainless steel, plastics and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/copper\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">copper<\/a>, the lifetime of the virus on engineered coatings was less understood,\u201d said Kevin Mussleman, the Waterloo mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor who led the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered that using a thin-film coating of copper or copper compounds on surfaces could enhance copper\u2019s ability to inactivate or destroy the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for COVID-19. In a study that began soon after the pandemic hit in March 2020, University of Waterloo engineering graduate students investigated how six different thin metal and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132894","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}