Curran Biotech develops nanotech filter coating to help fight COVID-19 spread

With Pfizer and Moderna’s coronavirus vaccines reaching more than a 90-percent effective rate, we’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel for a return to normalcy.

To add to the fight against this virus, a former New Mexico State University faculty member and current Physics professor with the University of Houston has developed a nanotech filter coating designed to allow air filters to capture airborne or aerosolized droplets of the virus that spreads COVID-19.

Professor Seamus Curran joined KTSM 9 News to tell us a little more about the new technology.

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Press Release: Nanotech Filter Coating Offers Promise Against COVID-19

Coating Developed by UH Professor Being Tested in New York City

By Jeannie Kever 
713-743-0778

September 29, 2020

A physics professor from the University of Houston has developed a nanotech coating designed to allow air filters to capture airborne or aerosolized droplets of the virus that causes COVID-19.

The coating works by capturing liquids which encase the virus particles while still allowing air to flow through unimpeded. That allows ventilation systems to remove the virus during normal operation, without retrofitting or limiting the system’s ability to draw fresh air, said Seamus Curran, a physics professor known for his work commercializing nanotechnologies.

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Water beading on a coated MERV 8 filter

Water beading on a coated MERV 2 filter material