{"id":2367,"date":"2021-10-01T13:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nichem.solutions\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T07:29:12","slug":"microfight-014-white-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessprojects.in\/nichem\/microfight-014-white-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroFight 014 WHITE PAPER"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNano Materials have found a great deal of attention because of the unique properties. Last 25 years have seen entry of Nano Materials in various fields like Cosmetics, Pharmaceuticals, Catalysis, Coatings, Printing, Water Purification, Environmental Sciences and so on. We at NICHEM have been successfully developing and commercializing Nano Materials prepared from Calcium Carbonate, Silica, Titanium Dioxide, Silver, Copper, Palladium and Organic Pigments. We have developed technologies to manufacture and successfully apply these to the fields of prevention of Rotting of Fruits, Anti-Fungal, Anti-Bacterial & Anti-Viral materials for Plastics\/Paints\/Coatings, Catalytic materials for degradation of Plastics, and Water Purification. Nano Silver supported on substrates like Nano Silica, Nano Titanium Dioxide and Nano Calcium Carbonate all have seen applications in different fields.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDuring Covid-19, many products came into limelight. But one thing was easily realized or understood, is that world doesn\u2019t have a strong, proven and guaranteed virus and bacteria destroyer. Every product released so far has either been questioned for efficacy or safety to humans and environment. Also, world doesn\u2019t have a product that works on all types of viruses.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe looked at this problem in a different way. Instead of working on the physiology of the bacteria or virus, we looked at ways to eliminate it by oxidation, which is more generic way of killing every type of bacteria and virus. In this case, we don\u2019t have to worry about the actual structure of the bacterium or virus. For imparting Anti-Bacterial\/Anti-Viral properties, Nanosized Silver and Titanium Dioxide is used. Metallic ions like Zinc and other metallic compounds display a certain degree of sterilizing effect. It is considered that part of the oxygen in the air or water is turned into active oxygen by means of catalysis with the metallic ion, thereby dissolving the organic substance to create a sterilizing effect (1). With the use of Nano-sized particles, the number of particles are increased many fold per unit area, and thus\u00a0Anti-Bacterial<\/a>\u00a0effects can be maximized.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNano-Silver Particles (AGNP) have an extremely large relative surface area, (10-11 m2 \/g) thus increasing their contact with bacteria or fungi, and vastly improving their bactericidal and \u00a9 Copyright of NICHEM SOLUTIONS fungicidal effectiveness. AGNP is very reactive with proteins. When contacting bacteria and fungus, it will adversely affect cellular metabolism and inhibit cell growth. It also suppresses respiration, the basal metabolism of the electron transfer system, and the transport of the substrate into the microbial cell membrane. Furthermore, it inhibits the multiplication and growth of those bacteria and fungi which cause infection, odor, itchiness and sores. Hence, AGNPs are widely applied to socks in order to prohibit the growth of bacteria. In addition, AGNP can be applied to a range of other healthcare products such as dressings for burns, scald, skin donor and recipient sites [2,3,4].\nTitanium Dioxide is a photocatalyst; once it is illuminated by light with energy higher than its band gaps, the electrons in TiO2 will jump from the valence band to the conduction band, and the electron (e) and electric hole (h+) pairs will form on the surface of the photocatalyst. The negative electrons and oxygen will combine into O2 -; the positive electric holes and water will generate hydroxyl radicals. Since both are unstable chemical substances, when the organic compound falls on the surface of the photocatalyst it will combine with O2 \u2013 and OH\u0002respectively and turn into carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O). This cascade reaction is called \u2018oxidation-reduction\u2019, [5] and the mechanism is shown in Figure 2 below. Through the reaction, the photocatalyst is able to decompose common organic matters in the air such as odor molecules, bacteria and viruses.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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