INVESIL - A Biostatic Transparent Antimicrobial Coating
The antimicrobial activities on surfaces can be achieved by traditionally utilized commercial products that claim to offer high #antimicrobial efficacy. However, such antimicrobial activity vanishes within a brief time of such commercial products application and the leftover microbes thrive on such surfaces. It is therefore evident that long term stability of the product on the treated object is essential for pathogen free surface. Most of the commercial products do not offer long term stability due to their limited adhesion capabilities.
The commercial products available in the market are formed by dispersing antimicrobial agents in polymeric matrix which on application forms paints like surface. A microscopic level of homogeneous dispersion of antimicrobial agents in polymeric matrix is significantly difficult if not impossible; that leaves behind the regimes for the microbial attachment and prosperity. Later, these hydrocarbon-based paint and coating surfaces serve as a food for the growth of microbes. As mentioned earlier, the adhesion of commercial paint and coatings to various substrates and dry film thickness has been a major challenge that limits the universal acceptability of any commercial antimicrobial coating product.
The #INVESIL chemistry helps in achieving the maximum antimicrobial activity (exceeding 99.99% reduction of pathogens) from the utilized antimicrobial agents. The antimicrobial agents are self-aligned and distributed homogeneously throughout the coating matrix. The antimicrobial agent defies low surface energy of coating and imparts maximum antimicrobial activity. The low solution viscosity helps coating macromers to seep hard to reach places and adopt coated surface contours. The high reactivity, and significantly high adhesion capability of coating to wide varieties of surfaces insures the long-term stability of coated surface. The solidified coating is transparent, 2 to 5 micron thin and creates hard impervious barrier without adding weight or sacrificing the original surface appearance. The solid coating is a bioceramic structure without hydrocarbon backbone and leftover functional groups. This coating can be used indoor, outdoor and also on human artificial implants. The proposed coating therefore offers antimicrobial activities to coated objects through following mechanisms:
a) Not allowing the adhesion of pathogens to the surface through self-cleaning action
b) Not a hydrocarbon feeding due to bioceramic backbone
c) Safer biostatic antimicrobial activity without leaching off active agents
d) Effective and unique antimicrobial action on surface and throughout coating thickness
e) Exceptional long-term service life through invisible coating thickness and strong adhesion tendency
V.P. American Paper
3yHello, my name is Jon Baer with American Paper & Supply Co. We have been in business for 93 years in the NJ/NY metro area and are a full service distributor of janitorial supplies and equipment as well as a complete lighting division. I have strong experience in infection control and have been promoting electrostatic equipment and bio stats for about five years now. We have up until recently sold a similar product to yours called SmartShield/BioProtect but are having current issues with the vendor and would like to explore other options. Again, I am very familiar with your technology and a big believer that it should be a requirement in every facility, especially in light of our current pandemic. I would like to find out the possibilities of distributing your product in the market place, and would like to know the requirements you have for opening orders and continuous business. I would also like to know how readily available the product is as we have many customers who are in immediate need. I look forward to hearing back from you as soon as possible. Thank you,
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