Chinese Partnership Brings Us Covid-Killing Antibacterial Fabric
If you’ve never heard of the Hegelian Dialectic, it goes something like this: problem, reaction, solution. Now, I don’t know for sure whether COVID-19 came from China, but if it did, the same country is now offering up what seems to be a viable solution for defeating it.
A collaboration between Jinan Shengquan Group Share Holding Co., Ltd., and the Hong Kong Nano and Advanced Materials Institute has resulted in development of a new antiviral, antibacterial fabric that can kill the COVID-19 virus. The fabric, called Nano-VTS, is now being used to mass-produce face masks and other personal protective equipment.
An excerpt from the press release announcing this new innovation provides a bit more explanation about how it works:
The biopolysaccharide polymer structure in the fabric can actively adsorb and capture bacteria and viruses by contacting, then kills them through biological activity. As it is the structure of the fabric that make it effective, even after 30 washes, it is still able to kill over 99% of the viruses. This resilience means the Nano-VTS antiviral, antibacterial fabric is ideal for daily use without frequent replacement.
Evidently, several third-party entities have already tested, approved, and verified the efficacy of this new material. It has passed the examinations of the international standard antiviral and safety tests in US Microbac, British Intertek, Swiss SGS, Guangdong Detection Centre of Microbiology, CNTAC Testing Centre, and German Hohenstein.
Also from the press release,
The newly developed Nano-VTS antibacterial and antiviral fabric effectively kills 3 of the 7 currently known coronaviruses that can infect humans, COVID-19, SARS, and HCoV-229E. Test data from Chinese high-level biosafety laboratories confirm that the fabric can kill 100% of the COVID-19 virus within 60 minutes. The British Virology Research Services (VRS) , an independent third-part testing agency, confirmed the findings that the virus was reduced by 90% within 5 minutes of contact with the fabric and 99.99% after 120 minutes.
Patents, of course, have been filed around the world for this technology. Foreseeable uses include not only face masks, but also gloves, hospital bed sheets and even public transportation seat covers.
Sounds like a great investment opportunity, a real valuable and necessary product.
Things that make you go “hmmmmm.”
Sources
Jinan Shengquan Group Share Holding Co. LTD, http://e.shengquan.com
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