Antimicrobial Coatings for Touch Surfaces

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the major global challenges facing healthcare. Prevention of infections acquired in hospitals is the most effective way to fight AMR. This paper presents a solution against infections derived from touch surfaces by using a coating nanotechnology based adhesive pad to protect the public from cross contamination. The aim of the coated surfaces was to rapidly kill microbes and viral strains that could be in contact with and hence be continually self-cleaning (self-sanitizing). The coating development has been focused on flexible and transparent substrates and coatings which could be easily upscaled using Roll-to-Roll production techniques. Different biochemical and biological tests would be performed in order to qualify and quantify the antimicrobial efficiency. New analytical techniques would also be applied in order to identify dead & alive and colony forming units (cfu) on the coated surfaces. 

https://doi.org/10.14332/svc19.proc.0010