MAFuMa EPSRC project team led by Prof Gavriilidis develops new light activated bactericidal coating

Prof Gavriilidis’ group has developed a continuous flow process for gold nanoclusters synthesis, which forms one of the key ingredients of a new coating that activates with ambient light to kill bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. The research has been performed with EPSRC funding through the MAFuMa EPSRC project and has been published in Nature Communications.

Links

• UCL News
• Professor Asterios Gavriilidis’ academic profile
• The Manufacturing Advanced Functional Materials (MAFuMa) project
• Research in Nature Communications 

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• Human neutrophil ingesting MRSA (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH))