EU RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NANO-ZINC FABRICS
December 5th, 2013A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project has developed technology to make sanitary fabric aseptic using zinc nanoparticles, enzymes and ultrasounds. The SONO Project’s ‘sonochemical’ process has been pioneered at Spain’s Polytechnical University of Catalunia. “Like silver, zinc has a strong antiseptic effect. While the fabric is immersed in…water, ultrasounds cause bubbles containing zinc oxyde nanoparticle to explode and the particles…embedded in the textile,” said a European Commission note. *www.fp7-sono.eu
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.