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Architectural Armor: Preventive Biocidal Surfaces

October 23, 2017 / Dochitect / Design for Patient Safety, Evidence-Based Design

Letters to the Editor

Publication: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, Letter to the Editor
Publication Reference: 2017, Vol. 10(5) 162-164
Author: Diana C. Anderson, MD, MArch, Ken Trinder, Kate Mitchell, and Erica Mitchell
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Excerpt: Currently, there are two materials that qualify as preventive biocidal surfaces. Copper and copper alloys are one material. There is now an additional material that suspends cuprous oxide in a polymer, resulting in an equally efficacious substance that can be used both as a slab and as injection-molded shapes. Distinguishing itself from copper alloys, the cuprous oxide in a polymer looks and feels like any other synthetic quartz surface with a smooth, natural stone appearance, without rusting or oxidizing, and fabricates like any other hard surface, with lower cost implication.

For more information, read more about EOS Surfaces here.

Click here to read this Letter to the Editor, in which the evidence of Preventive Biocidal Surfaces is explored. 

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