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Color changes and bad odors caused by microbes are prevented, to extend the lifespan of products. Experience LG Antimicrobial. Our long history of innovation in glass production technology, ensures exceptional quality and reliability, ultimately increasing the value of hygiene performance for our customers.

Silver has been used widely since ancient times, because it exists in nature in its free elemental form. Hippocrates, said to be the founder of medical science, discovered silver's powerful medicinal properties for treating and preventing diseases.

Silver can also exist stably between glass structures in an activated ionic state. These formulations are safe for semi-permanent use with a reduced amount of silver.

Silver's antibacterial performance has been developed and successfully tested on our products. Zinc has higher stability than traditional antimicrobial ingredients like silver or copper. It's also effective for microorganisms, making it a powerful antimicrobial material.

It can exist in an ionic state or as a bonded element in an antimicrobial glass structure, and contains vital antimicrobial power. Copper is a naturally antimicrobial substance, recognized by ancient civilizations.

Egypt's Smith Papyrus records the first medical use of copper thousands of years ago, which has since been used for several generations. Copper is an antifungal component traditionally used in the form of metal alloys. In glass structures, it can exist stably in an ionic state.

The elution of antimicrobial ingredients damages essential proteins in microorganisms. Reactive oxygen species are generated by metal ions in glass, acting as oxidative stress and interfering with growth.

LG Antimicrobial attracts microbes to an antimicrobial agent's surface with Zeta potential, maximizing the effectiveness of antimicrobial agents. Glass materials have high chemical stability, so they easily mix with and can be applied to a variety of other materials.

They're suitable for a variety of uses due to their high thermal stability, and can function as a preservative in multiple fields.

LG Antimicrobial maintains its function as a preservative for long durations, thanks to its material's superb durability. Made with LG Electronics' design technology, LG Antimicrobial minimizes the elution of metal ions to minimize exposure to ions like silver, copper, and zinc.

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Superhydrophobic surfaces can be created in a number of ways, however most of the synthesis strategies are inspired by natural designs. Making a surface superhydrophobic represents an efficient means of imparting antimicrobial activity.

A passive antibacterial effect results from the poor ability of microbes to adhere to the surface. The area of superhydropboic textiles takes advantage of this and could have potential applications as antimicrobial coatings. Fluorocarbons and especially perfluorocarbons are excellent substrate materials for the creation of superhydrophobic surfaces due to their extremely low surface energy.

These types of materials are synthesized via the replacement of hydrogen atoms with fluorine atoms of a hydrocarbon. Nanoparticles are used for a variety of different antimicrobial applications due to their extraordinary behavior.

There are more studies being carried out on the ability for nanomaterials to be utilized for antimicrobial coatings due to their highly reactive nature.

There are quite a few physical characteristics that promote anti-microbial activity. However, most metal ions have the ability to create oxygen radicals, thus forming molecular oxygen which is highly toxic to bacteria.

Photocatalytic coatings are those that include components additives that catalyze reactions, generally through a free radical mechanism, when excited by light.

The photocatalytic activity PCA of a material provides a measure of its reactive potential, based on the ability of the material to create an electron hole pair when exposed to ultra-violet light.

Antimicrobial coatings systems take advantage of this by including photocatalytically active compounds in their formulations i. Systems like this are often described to be self-cleaning. Instead of doping a surface directly, antimicrobial activity can be imparted to a surface by applying a coating containing antimicrobial agents such as biocides or silver nanoparticles.

In the case of the latter, the nanoparticles can have beneficial effects on the structural properties of the coating along with their antibacterial effect.

Antimicrobial Peptides AMPs have gained a lot of attention because they are much less susceptible to development of microbial resistance.

AMPs can be physically attached by using oppositely charged polymeric layers and sandwiching the polypeptide between them. This may be repeated to achieve multiple layers of AMPs for the recurring antibacterial activity.

Assembly thickness and polymer-peptide interactions can affect the diffusion of peptide to bacterial contact. However, the chemical attachment of AMPs is also widely studied. AMPs can be covalently bound to a surface, which minimizes the "leaching effect" of peptides.

The peptide is typically attached by a very exergonic chemical reaction, thus forming a very stable antimicrobial surface. The surface can be functionalized first with a polymer resin such as polyethylene glycol PEG.

Antimicrobial touch surfaces include all the various kinds of surfaces such as door knobs , railings , tray tables, etc. that are often touched by people at work or in everyday life, especially for example in hospitals and clinics. Antimicrobial copper alloy touch surfaces are surfaces that are made from the metal copper or alloys of copper, such as brass and bronze.

Copper and copper alloys have a natural ability to kill harmful microbes relatively rapidly — often within two hours or less i. copper alloy surfaces are antimicrobial. Much of the antimicrobial efficacy work pertaining to copper has been or is currently being conducted at the University of Southampton and Northumbria University United Kingdom , University of Stellenbosch South Africa , Panjab University India , University of Chile Chile , Kitasato University Japan , University of Coimbra Portugal , and the University of Nebraska and Arizona State University U.

Clinical trials evaluating the efficacy of copper alloys to reduce the incidence of nosocomial infections are on-going at hospitals in the UK, Chile, Japan, South Africa, and the U.

Designing effective antimicrobial surfaces demands an in-depth understanding of the initial microbe-surface adhesion mechanisms. Bacterial colony forming unit CFU counting requires overnight incubation and detects bacteria that readily grow on solid media.

Molecular dynamics MD simulation can be used to minimize the number of experiments with engineered substrates, with the quantification of time-lapse fluorescence microscopy images that can be processed in an hour.

The analysis of the zeta potential by the streaming potential method of either an antimicrobial coating [34] or a self-disinfectant material [35] in contact with an aqueous environment, or by electrophoretic light scattering of nanoparticle dispersions of antibacterial additives [36] reveal information about surface and interfacial charge and let predict the electrostatic attraction or repulsion of microorganisms.

Naturally occurring chitin and certain peptides have been recognized for their antimicrobial properties in the past. Today, these materials are engineered into nanoparticles in order to produce low-cost disinfection applications.

Natural peptides form nano-scale channels in the bacterial cell membranes, which causes osmotic collapse. Chitosan is a polymer obtained from chitin in arthropod shells, and has been used for its antibacterial properties for a while, but even more so since the polymer has been made into nanoparticles.

Chitosan proves to be effective against bacteria, viruses, and fungi, however it is more effective against fungi and viruses than bacteria.

The positively charged chitosan nanoparticles interact with the negatively charged cell membrane, which causes an increase in membrane permeability and eventually the intracellular components leak and rupture. Silver compounds and silver ions also have been known to show antimicrobial properties and have been used in a wide range of applications, including water treatment.

It is shown that silver ions prevent DNA replication and affect the structure and permeability of the cell membrane. Silver also leads to UV inactivation of bacteria and viruses because silver ions are photoactive in the presence of UV-A and UV-C irradiation.

Cysteine and silver ions form a complex that leads to the inactivation of Haemophilus influenzae phage and bacteriophage MS2.

Even with all the precautions taken by medical professionals, infection reportedly occurs in up to This has been achieved by coating titanium devices with an antiseptic combination of chlorhexidine and chloroxylenol. This antiseptic combination successfully prevents the growth of the five main organisms that cause medical related infections, which include Staphylococcus epidermidis , Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Escherichia coli and Candida albicans.

Photoactive pigments such as TiO 2 and ZnO have been used on glass, ceramic, and steel substrates for self-cleaning and antimicrobial purposes. Copper alloy surfaces have intrinsic properties to destroy a wide range of microorganisms.

The US Environmental Protection Agency EPA , which oversees the regulation of antimicrobial agents and materials in that country, found that copper alloys kill more than to make human health claims EPA public health registrations were previously restricted only to liquid and gaseous products.

The EPA has granted antimicrobial registration status to different copper alloy compositions. In public facility applications, EPA-approved antimicrobial copper products include health club equipment, elevator equipment, shopping cart handles , etc. In residential building applications, EPA-approved antimicrobial copper products include kitchen surfaces, bedrails, footboards , door push plates, towel bars, toilet hardware, wall tiles, etc.

In mass transit facilities, EPA-approved antimicrobial copper products include handrails , stair rails grab bars , chairs , benches , etc. A comprehensive list of copper alloy surface products that have been granted antimicrobial registration status with public health claims by the EPA can be found here: Antimicrobial copper-alloy touch surfaces Approved products.

Clinical trials are currently being conducted on microbial strains unique to individual healthcare facilities around the world to evaluate to what extent copper alloys can reduce the incidence of infection in hospital environments.

Early results disclosed in from clinical studies funded by the U. Department of Defense that are taking place at intensive care units ICUs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, the Medical University of South Carolina , and the Ralph H.

Marine Biofouling is described as the undesirable buildup of microorganisms, plants, and animals on artificial surfaces immersed in water. Traditionally, biocides , a chemical substance or microorganism that can control the growth of harmful organisms by chemical or biological means, are used in order to prevent marine biofouling.

Biocides can be either synthetic, such as tributyltin TBT , or natural, which are derived from bacteria or plants. TBT dispersed in the coating in which they "leached" into the sea water, killing any microbes or other marine life that had attached to the ship.

The release rate for the biocide however tended to be uncontrolled and often rapid, leaving the coating only effective for 18 to 24 months before all the biocide leached out of the coating. This problem however was resolved with the use of so-called self-polishing paints, in which the biocide was released at a slower rate as the seawater reacted with the surface layer of the paint.

Non-stick coatings contain no biocide, but have extremely slippery surfaces which prevents most fouling and makes it easier to clean the little fouling that does occur. Natural biocides are found on marine organisms such as coral and sponges and also prevent fouling if applied to a vessel.

Creating a difference in electrical charge between the hull and sea water is a common practice in the prevention of fouling. This technology has proven to be effective, but is easily damaged and can be expensive.

Microban antimicrobial technology works at a cellular level to continually disrupt the growth and reproduction of microorganisms.

It operates a multi-modal attack, damaging the protein, cell membrane, DNA, and internal systems of a microbe. Once infused into a product, Microban antimicrobial technology will start to work as soon as a microorganism comes into contact with the protected surface.

Microban antimicrobial additives have undergone extensive independent laboratory testing and have a long history of safe use, across a wide range of product types. The biocidal active components of Microban antimicrobial additives are regulated by various agencies EPA, BPR, PMRA in each region as treated articles and are proven safe and effective for their specific end use applications.

Microban technology has been proven effective against a broad spectrum of bacteria. It is not effective against viruses including COVID Normal cleaning practices should be maintained.

Microban antimicrobial product protection works at a cellular level to continually disrupt the growth and reproduction of microorganisms that contaminate a treated surface. Watch how microorganisms double every 20 minutes on surfaces. With Poly products powered by Microban devices stay cleaner longer by inhibiting the growth of bacteria and other degrading microbes.

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