{"id":181359,"date":"2024-01-25T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/nanoparticle-spray-reduces-risk-of-airborne-bacterial-infections-caused-by-air-filtration-systems"},"modified":"2024-01-25T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:23:26","slug":"nanoparticle-spray-reduces-risk-of-airborne-bacterial-infections-caused-by-air-filtration-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/nanoparticle-spray-reduces-risk-of-airborne-bacterial-infections-caused-by-air-filtration-systems","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticle spray reduces risk of airborne bacterial infections caused by air filtration systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticle-spray-reduces-risk-of-airborne-bacterial-infections-caused-by-air-filtration-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A novel nanoparticle spray coating process has been shown to all but eliminate the growth of some of the world\u2019s most dangerous bacteria in air filtration systems, significantly reducing the risk of airborne bacterial and viral infections.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the principal finding of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0254058423013925\">study<\/a>, led by researchers from IMDEA Materials Institute in collaboration with scientists from the Networking Biomedical Research Center in Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES) and Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) in Madrid, Spain. The study was published in Materials Chemistry and Physics.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201cControl of microbial agents by functionalization of commercial air filters with metal oxide particles,\u201d tested various spray coatings of silver (Ag<sub>2<\/sub>O), copper (CuO) and zinc (ZnO) oxides as low-cost antiviral and antibacterial filters when applied to commercially available air filtration systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel nanoparticle spray coating process has been shown to all but eliminate the growth of some of the world\u2019s most dangerous bacteria in air filtration systems, significantly reducing the risk of airborne bacterial and viral infections. That\u2019s the principal finding of a study, led by researchers from IMDEA Materials Institute in collaboration with scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181359","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\/181359","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}