Game-changers: two inventions vital to the battle against Covid-19

Tanya Farber

Michael Lucas, a PhD student in the school of mechanical engineering, had over the course of five years developed a metallised coating that can be added to surfaces in hospitals to make them capable of self-sanitising. He said the novel coronavirus had also put “increased pressure on the need for adequate surface sanitation in hospitals and other health-care facilities”.

With hospital-acquired infections having become a problem across the world, “alternative solutions are needed”, said Lucas.

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