US 12,376,585 B2
Nanostructured metallic substrates and surfaces to deactivate microbes
Terry C. Lowe, Golden, CO (US)
Assigned to COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES, Golden, CO (US)
Filed by Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (US)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/494,500.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/088,358, filed on Oct. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0104484 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. A01N 25/08 (2006.01); A01N 59/00 (2006.01); A01N 59/06 (2006.01); A01N 59/16 (2006.01); A01N 59/20 (2006.01); C23C 30/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01N 25/08 (2013.01) [A01N 59/00 (2013.01); A01N 59/06 (2013.01); A01N 59/16 (2013.01); A01N 59/20 (2013.01); C23C 30/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A metallic material for disrupting a microbe species, comprising:
a substrate surface; and
at least one nanoscale projection extending from the substrate surface, the at least one nanoscale projection configured to induce a non-uniform charge to at least one of reduce or eliminate a pathogenicity of microbes by a charge transfer.