ABOUT
We are team of individuals with vast experience in Nano Tech, ICT, Business & Law who have spent considerable time together to kick start the Nano Gard Startup.
PRODUCT ANALYSIS
- Human beings have used silver to treat various ailments for over 100 years due to its natural antibacterial and antifungal properties.
- In Australia, it is still common for indigenous people to put a piece of silver in their water tanks to prevent corruption and Ancient Europeans used silver utensils to prevent food poisoning.
- In modern times, silver water filters and tablets have been introduced for homes, companies, schools, colleges, Food places and airlines.
- In the electric ionization method, silver and copper ions are used instead of chlorine to disinfect swimming
- More than 50 silver-based oral and injectable drugs exist n the market today.
OUR FOCUS :
Nanoparticles provide new opportunities in merging therapeutics and new materials, with current research efforts just beginning to scratch the surface of their diverse benefits and potential applications.
One such application, the use of inorganic nanoparticles in antiseptic coatings to prevent pathogen transmission and infection, has seen promising developments.
Notably, the high reactive surface area to volume ratio and unique chemical properties of metal-based nanoparticles enables their potent inactivation of viruses.
Nanoparticles exert their virucidal action through mechanisms including inhibition of virus-cell receptor binding, reactive oxygen species oxidation and destructive displacement bonding with key viral structures.
AgNPs can bind to and disable areas of ASFV’s membrane proteins, such as the binding domains of glycoproteins, thereby preventing viral penetration into host cells.
When proteins and enzymes form complexes with silver, their protein folding changes, which can cause denaturation that incapacitates essential viral functions such as RNA replication and vesicle formation for cell entry.