Next Generation Engineered Antiviral Coatings (2025-2028)
Abstract
This project aims to engineer an environmentally friendly antiviral nanocoating designed with new and universal mode of viral inactivation for broad-spectrum and long-lasting viral protection. Using a combination of synthesis, computational modelling, and cutting-edge visualisation and quantitative analysis techniques, this project expects to provide new antiviral design principles to guide surface coatings development. Expected outcomes include mechanistic understanding of virus properties and behaviour on coatings, leading to a next generation antiviral nanocoating to optimally bind and rupture viruses. This should provide economic and health benefits through protecting Australians by halting transmission of known and new viral outbreaks.
