ArticleJournal of thermal spray technology2021
Thermal Spray Copper Alloy Coatings as Potent Biocidal and Virucidal Surfaces.
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- Public surface disinfection every 2 hours can reduce the infection risk of norovirus in airports up to 83.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Advanced Plasmonic Nanoparticle-Based Techniques for the Prevention, Detection, and Treatment of Current COVID-19.Plasmonics (Norwell, Mass.) · 2023Review
- Antibacterial and Virucidal Evaluation of Ultrafine Wire Arc Sprayed German Silver Coatings.Journal of thermal spray technology · 2023Review
- Antiviral and Antibacterial Cold Spray Coating Application on Rubber Substrate, Disruption in Disease Transmission Chain.Journal of thermal spray technology · 2023Review
- Residual antimicrobial coating efficacy against SARS-CoV-2.Journal of applied microbiology · 2022Article
- Contact transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on fomite surfaces: surface survival and risk reduction.Interface focus · 2022Review
- Role of Coating Processes on the Corrosion Kinetics and Mechanism of Zinc in Artificial Seawater.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Antiviral properties of copper and its alloys to inactivate covid-19 virus: a review.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2021Review
- Effectiveness of antiviral metal and metal oxide thin-film coatings against human coronavirus 229E.APL materials · 2021Article
- Bactericidal and Fungistatic Properties of LDPE Modified with a Biocide Containing Metal Nanoparticles.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Microbial and viral pathogen contamination of touch surfaces contributes to the rapid transmission of diseases. It has been known for decades that microbes and viruses are rapidly inactivated when exposed to copper and its alloys. Consequently, the use of thermal spray technologies to coat surfaces in healthcare and public settings has been receiving a considerable amount of interest during recent viral pandemics and particularly now with COVID-19. This review is focused on recent successes using thermal spray technology to uniformly coat metal and organic surfaces, providing a rapid and economical means of inhibiting fomite transmission of pathogens on diverse surfaces with complex topographies. Emphasis is placed on the influence of lamella structure, porosity, and roughness of the coatings as it pertains to biocidal activity and the implications of using this knowledge to optimize the ability of copper coatings to irreversibly inactivate viral pathogens, regardless of their genomic mutation rates. Results of the long-term performance of the copper alloy coatings in real hospital settings in Canada and Peru are also presented.
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