{"id":234898,"date":"2026-04-10T03:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/how-surface-chemistry-impacts-the-performance-of-malaria-nets"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:29:51","slug":"how-surface-chemistry-impacts-the-performance-of-malaria-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/how-surface-chemistry-impacts-the-performance-of-malaria-nets","title":{"rendered":"How surface chemistry impacts the performance of malaria nets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-surface-chemistry-impacts-the-performance-of-malaria-nets3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insecticide-treated bed nets remain one of the most effective tools in malaria prevention, acting both as a physical barrier and as an insecticidal surface that kills or disables mosquitoes before they can transmit disease. New research by a multidisciplinary research team from the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) uses surface science to assess how well malaria nets perform.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the focus of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aeb2023\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> was the phasing out of PFAS coatings, a group of synthetic fluorinated coating chemicals that have been valued for stability and performance. However, their environmental persistence and potential health risks have made their removal an important priority. The paper is titled \u201cMultimodal platform for ITN efficacy: Surface chemistry, bioavailability, and mosquito behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To understand the impact of removing PFAS, the team developed a novel <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-02-human-subjects-longer-mosquito-trials.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">multimodal evaluation platform<\/a> combining chemical analysis, advanced surface imaging, and mosquito behavioral tracking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insecticide-treated bed nets remain one of the most effective tools in malaria prevention, acting both as a physical barrier and as an insecticidal surface that kills or disables mosquitoes before they can transmit disease. New research by a multidisciplinary research team from the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) uses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234898","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}