An Exciting Antibacterial Application For Black Silicon As a few Message board posters have mentioned, Natcore is not just tied to Solar but I believe IMO that their technology can be licenced for many other applications.
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An excerpt from Antibacterial app:
In addition to their work on black silicon and laser processing in the Rochester labs, Natcore's scientists, in collaboration with Prof. Andy Barron's research group at Rice University, are now also researching the application of black silicon as an antibacterial surface.
As recently reported in the journal Nature Communications, a group headed by microbiologist Elena Ivanova of Swinburne University of Technology in Australia has discovered that black silicon surfaces can act as effective biocides, with the sharp, "nanopillar" structure proving to be highly lethal to certain human pathogens.
The potential for a black silicon biocidal surface, if it can be manufactured and transferred to other surfaces, is exceptional. For example, the evolution of drug-resistant microbes is a growing concern in medicine. But a surface that physically destroys microbes by deforming or destroying their cell walls — as black silicon is proving it can do — will completely sidestep the ability of microbes to develop drug resistance. While the effectiveness of black silicon as a biocide has been indicated by this research, the ability to manufacture appropriately-structured black silicon in quantity remains elusive. Because this is precisely where Natcore excels, the Company's scientists are now specifically targeting this application in ongoing research.
The Company will promptly announce new advances in this area as they are achieved and protected.