ArticleScience advances2024
Highly efficient microbial inactivation enabled by tunneling charges injected through two-dimensional electronics.
Article in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Probing contact electrification processes from interfacial charge transfer to bulk transport in semicrystalline polymers.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Waterborne pathogen mitigation: Decoding techno-ecological synergies in multiscale transmission networks.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2026Review
- Portable hand-powered nanocatalysis for water disinfection.Nature nanotechnology · 2026Article
- Electragel for Advanced Static Charge Mitigation and Energy Harvesting.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Leaf-based energy harvesting and storage utilizing hygroscopic iron hydrogel for continuous power generation.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Progress and Perspectives in 2D Piezoelectric Materials for Piezotronics and Piezo-Phototronics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- FeACS omega · 2025Article
- Interfering with proton and electron transfer enables antibacterial starvation therapy.Science advances · 2025Article
- Advances in Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Microbial Disinfection.Micromachines · 2025Review
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Abstract
Airborne pathogens retain prolonged infectious activity once attached to the indoor environment, posing a pervasive threat to public health. Conventional air filters suffer from ineffective inactivation of the physics-separated microorganisms, and the chemical-based antimicrobial materials face challenges of poor stability/efficiency and inefficient viral inactivation. We, therefore, developed a rapid, reliable antimicrobial method against the attached indoor bacteria/viruses using a large-scale tunneling charge-motivated disinfection device fabricated by directly dispersing monolayer graphene on insulators. Free charges can be stably immobilized under the monolayer graphene through the tunneling effect. The stored charges can motivate continuous electron loss of attached microorganisms for accelerated disinfection, overcoming the diffusion limitation of chemical disinfectants. Complete (>99.99%) and broad-spectrum disinfection was achieved <1 min of attachment to the scaled-up device (25 square centimeters), reliably for 72 hours at high temperature (60°C) and humidity (90%). This method can be readily applied to high-touch surfaces in indoor environments for pathogen control.
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