Swinburne has worked with Australian manufacturer SPEE3D to trial copper door push plates that fight COVID-19 at its Hawthorn campus.
SPEE3D has successfully developed and tested a fast and affordable way to 3D print anti-microbial copper onto metal surfaces. Laboratory tests have shown that touch surfaces modified by this process ‘contact kills’ 96 per cent of the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, in just two hours.
The material, known as ‘ACTIVAT3D copper’, has been developed by modifying SPEE3D’s 3D printing technology, using new algorithms to control their metal printers and allow existing metal parts to be coated with copper. Copper parts are difficult to produce using traditional methods and 3D printing is one of the only tools available to rapidly deploy copper.
Georgian Mining Corp (LON:GEO) is an AIM listed copper & gold development and exploration company that operates mainly in Georgia on the prolific Tethyan Belt.