Smart Hybrid Antimicrobial and Robust Coatings (SHARC)

有必要扩大智能涂层材料的武器库，以对抗抗药性病原体的传播，这对世界人口的安全至关重要。在新冠肺炎大流行期间，对酒精清洁产品前所未有的需求引发了巨大的物流和分销问题，最终影响了各国在整个大流行期间采取的应对措施。为了应对这一挑战，并帮助该行业更好地了解未来的事件，必须开发新型涂层材料。在此合作项目期间开发的技术将允许制备具有持久抗菌效果的可喷涂非挥发性涂层材料。为实现这些性能而设计的独特的聚合物材料将在不同的环境中进行测试，以扩大其应用范围。该联盟项目将为合作伙伴公司提供一种新型材料，可以快速应用于表面或人体皮肤，以获得强大的抗菌和防污效果。高挥发性、寿命短的清洁产品的替代在国际上具有重要的经济和战略意义。这家工业伙伴严重依赖涂层材料来制备其产品，迫切需要无毒、持久的涂层材料。本研究成果将为社会和工业部门提供更安全的涂层材料，从而使社会和工业部门受益。

The necessity to expand the arsenal of smart coating materials to fight the propagation of resistant pathogens is paramount for the safety of the world's population. During the COVID pandemic, the unprecedented demand of alcoholic cleaning product raised tremendous logistic and distribution problems which ultimately impacted countries' response measures throughout the pandemic. To answer this challenge and help the industry to better apprehend future events, novel coating materials must be developed.The technology that will be developed during this collaborative project will allow to prepare sprayable non-volatile coating materials with long lasting antimicrobial effect. The unique polymeric material that will be designed to achieve these properties will be tested in different settings to expand its application range. This alliance project will provide the partner company with a novel material that can be quickly applied to surfaces or human skin in order to obtain potent antimicrobial and antifouling effects.Replacement of highly volatile short lived cleaning product is of great economic and strategic importance internationally. The industrial partner, who rely heavily on coating materials for the preparation of its products, is in dire need of non-toxic coating materials with long-lasting effects. The outcomes of the present research will benefit both the society and the industrial sector by providing them safer coating materials.