EU RESEARCH PROJECT PRODUCES NANO-TEXTILES THAT CAN KILL SUPERBUGS
April 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research team claims to have developed fabric incorporating nano-materials that can kill super-bugs such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), without the safety concerns associated with nano-silver. Its migration into the environment has sparked health fears, but the BioElectricSurface consortium involving the universities of Limerick, in Ireland; Wroclaw, in Poland; and Comenius University, in Slovakia; claims to have solved this problem. In a Euro EUR4.4 million EU-funded project, they have used ...
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