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## The UJI and the CDMF of Brazil are working on the creation of new technologies on biocidal materials.

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The Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Laboratory (QTC) of the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), directed by Professor Juan Andrés, and the Centre for the Development of Functional Materials (CDMF), coordinated by Professor Elson Longo from the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil, are carrying out a multidisciplinary project on new technologies based on advanced materials with high biocidal activity.

Dr. Camila Foggi is involved in a line of work to obtain advanced materials with biocidal activity and new technologies to combat the COVID-19 virus. The research is carried out in collaboration with visiting professor Ivo Pinatti, also from the CDMF, and the Biomaterials and Bioengineering Group of the Catholic University of Valencia, led by professor Ángel Serrano.

Doctoral student Marcelo Assis is completing his doctoral thesis co-supervised by the two centres in this field. The collaboration between the two institutions and the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Sao Paulo (USP) has so far made it possible to develop the first material that not only eliminates all types of pathogens (bacteria, fungi and viruses), but also the new SARS-COV-2 virus by surface contact.

This has led to the manufacture and marketing of various devices (masks, personal protective equipment for health centre staff, and PVC films) which have been transferred to the market through the company Nanox Technology, a spin-off created at the CDMF fifteen years ago, and which is now a consolidated technology-based company.

The use of laser irradiation sources for the synthesis of materials for technological applications such as photocatalysts capable of eliminating harmful compounds, as well as materials with high antibacterial and fungicidal activity, is another of the lines of research developed by Marcelo Assis and Ivo Pinatti, in collaboration with Omar Torres Mendieta and Professor Gladys Mínguez of the Optics Research Group (GROC) of the UJI.

In this same line of work, the researchers of the QTC Laboratory Dr. Sixte Safont and Dr. Mónica Oliva are developing a theoretical-experimental multidisciplinary research project that aims to elucidate the molecular mechanism by which semiconductors are able to generate the reactive species that are key not only to understand catalysis, but also to destroy the cell wall of fungi, bacteria and viruses.

This research and technological innovation is being funded by the Universitat Jaume I and the Federal University of Sao Carlos and public bodies in Spain (Ministries of Science and Technology and the Generalitat Valenciana) and Brazil (Cepids, CNPq, FAPESP and INCTMN).

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