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ANTIMICROBIAL DEVELOPMENT It has been recognized in the antimicrobial industry that a product was required which killed microbes instantly without establishing a zone of inhibition, which would produce “super microbes”; and consequently would not leach into the environment where it would kill beneficial species. This scenario is the problem with using poisons such as heavy metal ions and the chlorophenols. It has been shown in the literature that the surface of a microbe is inherently cationic and is susceptible to being drawn to a cathode surface where it would be immobilized. Using cationic dyes by Claibourne et al and others on cotton has showed this fact. It is also in the literature that certain polymer surfaces will rupture the cells of microbes upon contact. The concept behind the antimicrobial from Micro-Texpur is the development of a co-polymerized monomer of an ammonium chloride salt in conjunction with silane chemistry to produce a polymer that will permanently co-polymerize with virtually any surface including glass and steel. The cationically charged microbe is pulled to the treated material where the copolymerized silane ruptures the cell wall, thus killing the microbe .The treatment is permanent and can be washed with detergents including chlorine bleach. It has been shown to withstand 50 washings in detergents with bleach. Micro-Texpur has developed an antimicrobial that is analogous on a molecular scale to a mouse trap. The cationic nature of the system is similar to the cheese in the trap in that the microbe is pulled to the treated material and, in the same manner that the trap is sprung killing the mouse, the copolymerizedsilane surface ruptures the cell of the microbe killing the cell. The detergent and bleach act as a cleansing agent in the same manner as the trap is emptied and reset.
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