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Ding Weng1, Hangfei Qi, Ting-Ting Wu
1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, 5531 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Nanoscale
|March 30, 2012
Abstract:
Influenza A viruses, the pathogens responsible for the recent swine flu outbreak and many historical pandemics, remain a threat to the public health. We report herein the fabrication of self-disinfecting surfaces from photoactive building nanocrystals, which can inactivate influenza viruses rapidly, spontaneously and continuously under visible light illumination.
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