{"id":73094,"date":"2017-10-06T23:47:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T06:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/a-novel-textile-material-that-keeps-itself-germ-free"},"modified":"2017-10-06T23:47:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T06:47:47","slug":"a-novel-textile-material-that-keeps-itself-germ-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/a-novel-textile-material-that-keeps-itself-germ-free","title":{"rendered":"A novel textile material that keeps itself germ-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-novel-textile-material-that-keeps-itself-germ-free.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed a novel weapon in the battle against deadly hospital-acquired infections \u2014 a textile that disinfects itself.<\/p>\n<p>And independent tests show it can reduce bacteria levels by more than 90 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>By incorporating the specially-engineered textile in a device designed to be used on hospital doors instead of the traditional aluminium door plate, that part of the door that people push to open it \u2014 they aim to bolster <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hand\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hand<\/a> hygiene.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-10-textile-material-germ-free.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;10-textile-material-germ-free.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a novel weapon in the battle against deadly hospital-acquired infections \u2014 a textile that disinfects itself. And independent tests show it can reduce bacteria levels by more than 90 per cent. By incorporating the specially-engineered textile in a device designed to be used on hospital doors instead of the traditional aluminium door [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73094","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}