Apr 19, 20222 min read

EB Korea Networks and Korea Institute of Materials Science and Technology transfer contract

Reporter's name Input by reporter Jin-seong Cho 2022.2.23 14:30

[News In] Reporter Jin-seong Cho = EB Korea Networks announced on the 23rd that it had signed a contract with the Korea Institute of Materials Science for the transfer of antibacterial and antiviral technology using ion beams.

After the technology transfer contract, EB Korea Networks CEO Kwon Young-woo is taking a commemorative photo in the main building of the Korea Institute of Materials Science and Technology.

The research team of Dr. Jeong Seong-hoon of the Nano-Bio Convergence Lab at the Korea Institute of Materials Science and Technology succeeded in developing the KF94 antiviral mask, HEPA filter, and antiviral filter coated with copper nano-thin film by applying ion beam technology.

Existing antiviral mask and filter products used polymer fibers containing copper nanoparticles, so there was a possibility that copper in the form of particles could be easily separated from the surface of the fibers, causing toxic inhalation problems inhaled by humans.

The research team can produce a KF94 mask, HEPA filter, and anti-viral filter that can inactivate the Corona 19 virus when manufacturing a copper nano-thin film-coated filter fabric using plasma and ion beam surface treatment technology using vacuum roll-to-roll equipment.

In addition, as a result of performance verification using the actual Corona 19 virus with Masan National Hospital, which is conducting joint research on quarantine materials with the Korea Institute of Materials, about 99.9% of the actual corona 19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) in contact with the mask surface for 1-hour Deactivation of the above was confirmed.

This technology is expected to block secondary infections of viruses and bacteria that are filtered through filters such as masks, air conditioners, and air purifiers, which are increasingly used.

Papers published on Polymers.

This research was carried out as a project of 'Development of materials and systems for removing pathogens applied to low-temperature plasma', a major project supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea Institute of Materials Science and Technology, and the research results were published on April 22 in Polymers, an academic journal in the field of polymers.

Kwon Young-woo, CEO of EB Korea Networks, said, "I am sincerely grateful for the technology transfer of the Korea Institute of Materials Science and Technology. As mentioned above, we plan to export domestic and worldwide as a preventive product (a blocking product that prevents harmful viruses to the human body) that we must prepare for another virus to come in the future, and we will do our best to develop as the No.1” he said.

Currently, EB Korea Networks has launched an antiviral product with Covid Zero. The filter size is 60cm × 60cm, consists of 4 sheets, and is a sticker type product.

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