Phadke, KS and Madival, DG and Venkataraman, J and Kundu, D and Ramanujan, KS and Holla, N and Arakeri, J and Tomar, G and Datta, S and Ghatak, A (2021) Novel non intrusive continuous use ZeBox technology to trap and kill airborne microbes. In: Scientific Reports, 11 (1).
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Abstract
Preventing nosocomial infection is a major unmet need of our times. Existing air decontamination technologies suffer from demerits such as toxicity of exposure, species specificity, noxious gas emission, environment-dependent performance and high power consumption. Here, we present a novel technology called �ZeBox� that transcends the conventional limitations and achieves high microbicidal efficiency. In ZeBox, a non-ionizing electric field extracts naturally charged microbes from flowing air and deposits them on engineered microbicidal surfaces. The surface�s three dimensional topography traps the microbes long enough for them to be inactivated. The electric field and chemical surfaces synergistically achieve rapid inactivation of a broad spectrum of microbes. ZeBox achieved near complete kill of airborne microbes in challenge tests (5�9 log reduction) and > 90 efficiency in a fully functional stem cell research facility in the presence of humans. Thus, ZeBox fulfills the dire need for a real-time, continuous, safe, trap-and-kill air decontamination technology. © 2021, The Author(s).
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Scientific Reports |
| Publisher: | Nature Research |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to Authors |
| Keywords: | article; decontamination; electric field; human; human cell; microorganism; nonhuman; provocation test; stem cell research; topography |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Dec 2021 05:49 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Dec 2021 05:49 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/70680 |
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