Last 17 April Emilia-Romagna launched the realization of a call financed with 4,2 million euro. The target? Encourage Emilian companies to create patents capable of contrasting and preventing the spread of Coronavirus. In the next issue of the biweekly magazine "Fifteen", out on Thursday 28 May, the economic section will deepen the projects admitted so far: thirty out of a total of 199 for a value of 3,1 million euro. An anticipation of Gianluca Falleti's project.
"From the approval of the application we have a time limit of six months for the realization of the project", Gianluca Falleti reasons, founder and owner of the Nanoprom company in Sassuolo. Falleti's proposal, who obtained the maximum share of the regional contribution, provides for the testing and production of removable antibacterial and antiviral films to be applied to surfaces to reduce the risk of contamination. "It is a type of paint that in contact with water– explains– causes it to behave like mercury, slips completely leaving the surface dry ». The Nanoprom patent has also been applied in Formula 1, aeronautics, submarines and satellites. The technology implemented by the Sassolese company focuses on the use ofPolysil, a particular coating, that once applied, guarantees the restoration of thegloss at values similar to those of the new surface, good corrosion resistance and high hardness. In addition, the surfaces become resistant to dirt, by reducing the surface tension. Polysil, also, it has the same qualities as glass. In this way the surfaces are ingelcoat, fiberglass, metal or other substrates can be recovered or preserved from wear, resistant and homologous to the material on which it rests.
«A dry surface– continues the Sassolese businessman– it is an environment devoid of life forms, where a virus is difficult to attack but, mostly, to survive without a natural habitat ». The price ratio? “The film would cost approx 4,50 euros per square meter. And one of our goals is to reach school environments ». Falleti explains, then, what are the three fundamental characteristics of Polysil, soon used also in the fight against Covid-19: «Reduction of frictions and progressive increase in the flowability of materials; ease in keeping the external and internal structures clean; greater savings in maintenance costs and consequent lower environmental impact, in the different environments where the materials are used, ie water and air ".
It is not the first time, however, that Falleti takes the field against Coronavirus. In April, with the same technology, had started to produce up to 150 thousand masks a day for the price of 61 cents. These were disposable protective devices made up of 55% from cellulose. The novelty of the masks produced by Nanoprom consists, still, not only in uv sanitization, but in the use of a water repellent able to guarantee greater protection. The masks, during thelockdown, they were distributed free of charge both to the Red Cross and to the civil protection between Castellarano, Sassuolo and Scandiano.
[Source: https://incronaca.unibo.it/ ]
