Highly efficient cash sterilization with ultrafast and flexible Joule‐heating strategy by laser patterning

Xu, Yang and Lin, Jing and Chen, Yi and Zhong, Haosong and Lee, Connie Kong Wai and Tan, Min and Chen, Siyu and Kim, Minseong and Poon, Elizabeth Wing Yan and Chan, Timothy Yee Him and Yuan, Aidan Qiaoyaxiao and Tang, Miao and Yang, Rongliang and Pan, Yexin and Fu, Ying and Li, Mitch Guijun (2024) Highly efficient cash sterilization with ultrafast and flexible Joule‐heating strategy by laser patterning. Advanced Materials Interfaces. ISSN 2196-7350 (https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400045)

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Abstract

Since ancient times, humans have learned to use fire and other heating methods to fight against dangerous pathogens, like cooking raw food, sterilizing surgical tools, and disinfecting other pathogen transmission media. However, it remains difficult for current heating methods to achieve extremely fast and highly efficient sterilization simultaneously. Herein, an ultrafast and uniform heating‐based strategy with outstanding bactericidal performance is proposed. Ultra‐precise laser manufacturing is used to fabricate the Joule heater which can be rapidly heated to 90 °C in 5 s with less than 1 °C fluctuation in a large area by real‐time temperature feedback control. An over 98% bactericidal efficiency on S. aureus for 30 s and on E. coli for merely 5 s is shown. The heating strategy shows a 360 times faster acceleration compared to the commonly used steam sterilization from the suggested guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), indicating that high temperatures with short duration can effectively disinfect microorganisms. As a proof of concept, this heating strategy can be widely applied to sterilizing cash and various objects to help protect the public from bacteria in daily life.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:88891
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    9 April 2024
    Published
    9 April 2024
    Published Online
    20 March 2024
    Accepted
    16 January 2024
    Submitted
    Subjects:Technology > Manufactures
    Department:Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:22 Apr 2024 14:24
    Last modified:02 May 2024 01:19
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/88891
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