Researchers have now made a coating that protects these appliances from bacterial growth, while also making the devices’ plastic stronger (ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acsami ...

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Our simple process makes plastic surfaces antibacterial in just a few minutes. We produce a polymer that is applied on the substrate by spray- or dip-coating and then permanently fixed by short UV ...

For our sake and the environment, there is a considerable amount of research into the reduction of plastic for many and various applications. For the first time, researchers have found a way to imbue ...

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