VIRUCIDAL MATERIAL

• Main Authors: OXFORD JOHN SIDNEY, REN GUOGANG, REIP PAUL WILLIAM, LAMBKIN-WILLIAMS ROBERT, MANN ALEXANDER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.04.2013
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; FISHING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; HYGIENE; LAUNDERING; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; OUTERWEAR; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; TEXTILES; TRAPPING; TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; TREATMENT, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE IN CLASS D06, OF FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS,FABRICS, FEATHERS, OR FIBROUS GOODS MADE FROM SUCH MATERIALS; WEARING APPAREL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a virucidal agent for applying to fibers used for articles for protective wear, masks and the like.SOLUTION: There is disclosed fibers in which nanoparticles of the compound of the general formula MX(wherein M represents an element such as calcium, aluminum, zinc, nickel, tungsten, copper and silicon; n denotes an integer of 1-3; and X represents oxygen or an anion such as a phosphate ion, hydrogen phosphate ion, dihydrogen phosphate ion, carbonate ion, sulfate ion, nitrate ion, or the like, and y denotes an integer of 0-4) are applied to fibers and made to be an article for protective wear or a filter, and which is coated with the nanoparticles used for reducing and/or protecting virus infection.