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William Ducker Produces Coating That Neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 Virus

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Engineering Professor William Ducker and his team have been at work in their lab to produce a film coating that has the potential to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 Virus on surfaces.  
Okay. The first thing you do with the pandemic happens is you run around trying to protect yourself and your family. And that doesn't really take that long to do. And then you're left with basically what can I do to help? And I make coatings, I make coatings that work against bacteria. So I already have a background in making coatings and preventing different types of disease. So basically I started thinking about how to stop this disease. So what we're doing is we're making a coating that you can put over everyday objects, like a phone or a doorknob or a faucet handle or something like that And then the virus lands on that and then it has to move from being in the liquid droplets onto the surface. And then when it touches the surface the surface will inactivate it by changing the structure by denaturing the surface and by collapsing the viral envelope around it, the virus no longer becomes viable to infect another person. >> So that would be both a medical benefit but also will help morale with everybody because we're all paranoid about touching things all the time. I mean, how often do we do that? When I walk into the building, I have to use a swipe card, pull open the door. It's really bad that we have to be worried about that. I for one am really looking forward to not having to worry about that. Well, it's hard to imagine now but hopefully coronavirus will die down one day. But there's all the other viruses that are