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posted by martyb on Friday November 20 2020, @05:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the xkcd-1161 dept.

From the horse's mouth

Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced on Thursday a new breakthrough in glass-ceramic technology, Corning® Guardiant®. Under test methods approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), paint and coatings containing Corning Guardiant were shown to kill more than 99.9% of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

The tests provide the first demonstration of highly durable antimicrobial activity against SARS-CoV-2. The demonstrated antimicrobial efficacy remained active even after tests simulating six years of scrubbing. The tests were designed to account for the cleaning that a surface could be subjected to over time.

[...] Corning is working alongside PPG as it seeks EPA registration for its paint product formulated with Corning Guardiant.

Corning Guardiant contains copper, which has been shown to exhibit antimicrobial efficacy when applied to surfaces, consistently reducing germs on contact. Corning Guardiant keeps the most effective form of copper readily available for reducing harmful germs.

[...] Corning is currently collaborating with leading paint and coatings manufacturers around the world, including PPG, to develop products containing Corning Guardiant that meet governmental and regulatory requirements. Subject to EPA approval, PPG's antiviral paint product will be available under the name COPPER ARMOR™

[...] The results of SARS-CoV-2 testing on coatings containing Corning Guardiant were recently obtained by Dr. Luisa Ikner in Professor Charles Gerba's lab at the University of Arizona. Following U.S. EPA recommendations that test methods mimic in-use conditions for antimicrobial surface materials seeking claims against harmful germs, the lab used stringent test methods that simulated realistic contamination, which is dry and invisible.

In addition to the SARS-CoV-2 results, Corning has also published research on Corning Guardiant demonstrating kill[sic] of other bacteria and viruses with greater than 99.9% efficacy in under two hours, including gram positive bacteria (such as Staphylococcus aureus), gram negative bacteria (such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa), and non-enveloped viruses (such as murine norovirus, which belongs to the hardest-to-kill class of viruses in terms of its susceptibility to disinfectants).


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  • (Score: 3, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 20 2020, @05:49PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 20 2020, @05:49PM (#1079860) Journal

    How long until we see new lines of Corningware?

    "Son, you didn't wash this pie pan very well, there's still burnt blueberry in the bottom corners."

    "Don't worry, Dad, that's the new Corningware. Germs can't grow on it!"

    Yech - maybe I don't want the new Corningware. It will provide excuses for carelessness and laziness.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2020, @09:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2020, @09:24AM (#1080146)

      You're thinking of corn-holing. Totatlly different thing.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @06:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @06:02PM (#1079870)

    SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 are buzzwords here. But maybe this is a good thing for coating the insides of hospitals.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @06:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @06:10PM (#1079872)

    heh, glass that is still useful even when broken ... watchout brita ^_^

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @06:30PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @06:30PM (#1079883)

    You know what other kinds of surfaces are anti-bacterial, anti-viral, don't need any special process to produce, don't require any special maintenance except to be kept clean, are resistant to all kinds of conditions, and don't deteriorate significantly over time ?

    Copper. Silver. Gold. I.e. all metals in group 11 of the periodic table, as well as many alloys containing those metals, i.e. brass, bronze, etc.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @06:47PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @06:47PM (#1079894)

      And if you'd read the summary you'd know that these products are using copper for just that purpose.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday November 20 2020, @07:18PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday November 20 2020, @07:18PM (#1079924)

      Just need a quick mining trip to Psyche to crash the world markets in those metals. I wonder how accurately a mining ship on Psyche could lob 1000lb chunks back for free-fall deposition in the Outback?

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    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2020, @09:26AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 21 2020, @09:26AM (#1080147)

      I was hoping you were going to say my cock. I'm just a jaded AC.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @07:06PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @07:06PM (#1079912)

    And then I see the disinfectant coating, where it knocks it out in two hours.
    Two hours.
    And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning.
    Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs.
    So it would be interesting to check that.
    So, that, you're going to have to use medical doctors with.
    But it sounds—it sounds interesting to me.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @08:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @08:21PM (#1079950)

      Will it make a good hair dye?

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by RedGreen on Friday November 20 2020, @10:45PM

    by RedGreen (888) on Friday November 20 2020, @10:45PM (#1080000)

    to all the new super viruses evolving once this has done its job not killing off the .1 that survive and thrive.

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