• openAccess   Bioactive Ag3PO4/Polypropylene Composites for Inactivation of SARS-CoV?2 and Other Important Public Health Pathogens 

      Ribeiro , Lara Kelly; Assis, Marcelo de; R. Lima, Lais; Coelho, Dyovani; Gonçalves, Mariana O.; Paiva, Robert; Moraes, Leonardo N; Fogaça de Almeida, Lauana; Lipsky, Felipe; San-Miguel, Miguel A.; Mascaro, Lucia; Grotto, Rejane Maria Tommasini; Sousa, Cristina P; Rosa, Ieda; Cruz, Sandra A; Andres, Juan; Longo, Elson American Chemical Society (2021-09-21)
      The current unprecedented coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is increasingly demanding advanced materials and new technologies to protect us and inactivate SARS-CoV-2. In this research work, we report the manufacture of Ag3PO4 ...
    • openAccess   Polypropylene Modified with Ag-Based Semiconductors as a Potential Material against SARS-CoV-2 and Other Pathogens 

      Assis, Marcelo de; Ribeiro , Lara Kelly; Gonçalves, Mariana O.; Staffa, Lucas Henrique; Paiva, Robert S.; R. Lima, Lais; Coelho, Dyovani; Almeida, Lauana F.; Moraes, Leonardo N; Rosa, Ieda L. V.; Mascaro, Lucia; Grotto, Rejane M. T.; Sousa, Cristina P; Andres, Juan; Longo, Elson; Cruz, Sandra A American Chemical Society (2022-10-14)
      The worldwide outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and other emerging infections are difficult and sometimes impossible to treat, making them one of the major public health problems of our time. It is noteworthy ...
    • openAccess   PVC-SiO2-Ag composite as a powerful biocide and anti-SARS-CoV-2 material 

      Assis, Marcelo de; Simoes, Luiz Gustavo P.; Tremiliosi, Guilherme; Ribeiro , Lara Kelly; Coelho, Dyovani; Minozzi, Daniel; Santos, Renato; Vilela, Daiane C. B.; Mascaro, Lucia; Andres, Juan; Longo, Elson Springer (2021-08-31)
      The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has pushed scientists and technologists to find novel strategies to develop new materials to prevent the transmission, spread, and entry of pathogens into the human body. In this report, the ...
    • openAccess   SiO2-Ag Composite as a Highly Virucidal Material: A Roadmap that Rapidly Eliminates SARS-CoV-2 

      Assis, Marcelo de; pagotto simoes, luiz gustavo; Tremiliosi, Guilherme; Coelho, Dyovani; Minozzi, Daniel; Santos, Renato; Vilela, Daiane C. B.; Rodrigues do Santos, Jeziel; Ribeiro , Lara Kelly; Rosa, Ieda; Mascaro, Lucia; Andres, Juan; Longo, Elson MDPI (2021-03-04)
      COVID-19, as the cause of a global pandemic, has resulted in lockdowns all over the world since early 2020. Both theoretical and experimental efforts are being made to find an effective treatment to suppress the virus, ...