Water safe antimicrobial coatings for touch electronics

提出了一种“触控”电子产品抗菌清洗配方的研制。这种环保的设计将涂层覆盖在易于接受的表面上，使其不适合病原体，从而阻止疾病的传播。这有可能在清洁触摸表面的方式上产生一种范式转变。 触控电子产品，包括平板电脑、笔记本电脑、手机和显示器，经常暴露在来自周围环境的潜在有害细菌中。细菌可以在不被发现的情况下在支持致病菌的表面上被称为生物膜的菌落中生存。不断接触的接触表面是积累和帮助传播此类致病菌的理想位置。这种传播对于医院或其他护理机构中免疫功能受损的患者来说尤其令人担忧。2014年1月，Woosh成功地推出了一种高光泽度、不含酒精、不含氨的消毒剂，非常适合于清除接触表面的细菌。 不幸的是，随着时间的推移，致病菌可能会在这些清洁的表面上重新生长，需要更频繁的清洁。为了建立一种更持久的解决方案来解决这些表面上的细菌繁殖，需要无毒的抗菌涂层。 瑞尔森的福彻小组最近开发了一种紫外光固化抗菌涂料，适用于无孔 表面。我们建议这种涂层是Woosh配方的一个组成部分，以保持平板电脑、手机或笔记本电脑表面的抗菌能力。非浸出涂层通过暴露在紫外线光源下固定在表面上。一种成功的配方将为Woosh提供下一代清洁/抗菌涂料，并帮助Woosh保持其领先地位。给加拿大带来的好处是在化工制造业创造了就业机会，并提供了一个真正的解决方案，以积极影响健康结果。

The development of an antimicrobial cleaning formulation for "Touch" electronics is proposed. This environmentally safe design coats onto receptive surfaces and renders them inhospitable to pathogenic bacteria, stopping the spread of disease. This has the potential to create a paradigm shift in the way that touch surfaces are cleaned. Touch electronics, including tablets, laptops, cell phones and monitors are constantly exposed to potentially harmful bacteria from their surrounding environments. Bacteria can survive undetected in colonies called biofilms on surfaces that support pathogenic bacteria. Constantly accessed touch surfaces are ideal locations to accumulate and help spread such pathogenic bacteria. This spread is particularly worrisome for immune compromised patients in hospitals or other care facilities. Whoosh successfully introduced a high gloss non-alcoholic, non-ammonia disinfectant ideal for the removal of bacteria from "touch" surfaces in Jan 2014. Unfortunately, overtime, pathogenic bacteria can regrow on these cleaned surfaces and require more frequent cleaning. To build in a more permanent solution to the proliferation of bacteria on these surfaces, a non-toxic antimicrobial coating is required. The Foucher Group at Ryerson have recently developed a UV-curable antimicrobial coating suitable for non-porous surfaces. We propose that this coating be an integral component of the Whoosh's formulation to keep tablet, phone or laptop surfaces bacteria resistant. The non-leaching coatings fix to surfaces by exposure to a UV light source. A successful formulation will deliver the next generation cleaning/antimicrobial coating to Whoosh and help Whoosh maintain its leadership position. The benefits to Canada are job creation in chemical manufacturing and a real solution to positively impact health outcomes.