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This sounds very cool. Though I wish this article addressed some of the questions I had around commercialization, namely the cost of the gold + palladium, the
by Someone1234 5y ago
This sounds very cool.
Though I wish this article addressed some of the questions I had around commercialization, namely the cost of the gold + palladium, the expected lifecycle, and the expected maintenance routine (e.g. do they have to be regularly removed and cleaned?).
The article makes great arguments for why this should work (i.e. hydrogen peroxide is already being used, this just short-circuits how we get a known effective cleaning agent, reducing/removing logistics inefficiencies). So a lot of the question is: Is this cheaper/less hassle than buying stabilized hydrogen peroxide commercially?
A lot of these fantastic advances often end up in the black hole, wherein they work as advertised, but the financials/logistics never line up and therefore nobody uses them in anger.
- IncRnd 5y ago> So a lot of the question is: Is this cheaper/less hassle than buying stabilized hydrogen peroxide commercially? From the article: "The team showed that as the catalyst brought the hydrogen and oxygen together to form hydrogen peroxide, it simultaneously produced a number of highly reactive compounds, known as reactive oxygen species (ROS), which the team demonstrated were responsible for the antibacterial and antiviral effect, and not the hydrogen peroxide itself."