Patent ID: 8056733

Claim:
A process of making an anti-microbial structure comprising: providing a dry base structure comprising starting materials for use in fabricating a dry article; providing a microbiological interception enhancing agent comprising a cationic material having one or more counter ions associated therewith and a biologically active metal salt; treating at least a portion of a surface of said starting materials with said cationic material; exposing said treated starting materials to said biologically active metal salt, whereby said one or more counter ions of said cationic material preferentially precipitate with at least a portion of said biologically active metal salt such that precipitation of a colloidal metal precipitate occurs in direct proximity to said cationic material, while avoiding uncontrolled precipitation of said biologically active metal salt at sites of said starting materials remote from said cationic material, such that, said microbiological interception enhancing agent resides on said at least portion of said surface of said starting materials; and fabricating said dry article using said starting materials having said microbiological interception enhancing agent whereby both said starting materials and said microbiological interception enhancing agent reside throughout the finished dry article.