Wasu karafa, kamarazurfa, zinariya da jan karfe, suna da kwayoyin cutar antibacterial da antimicrobial Properties;suna iya kashe ko iyakance haɓakar ƙwayoyin cuta ba tare da cutar da mai gida ba.Rike jan ƙarfe, mafi arha daga cikin ukun, ga tufafi ya tabbatar da ƙalubale a baya.Amma a cikin 2018, masu bincike daga Jami'ar Manchester da Minzu na Arewa maso Yamma da Jami'ar Kudu maso Yamma a kasar Sin sun haɗu don ƙirƙirar wani tsari na musamman wanda ya dace da masana'anta tare da nanoparticles na jan karfe.Ana iya amfani da waɗannan yadudduka azaman rigunan asibiti na rigakafin ƙwayoyin cuta ko wasu yadudduka na likitanci.

Hoton ma'aikaciyar jinya sanye da uniform da jan karfe a cikin kwano, kiredit: COD Newsroom on Flickr, european-coatings.com

“Wadannan sakamakon suna da kyau sosai, kuma tuni wasu kamfanoni ke nuna sha’awar haɓaka wannan fasaha.Muna fatan za mu iya tallata fasahar ci-gaba a cikin shekaru biyu.Yanzu mun fara aiki don rage farashi da kuma sa tsarin ya fi sauƙi, "Jagoran marubuci Dr. Xuqing Liuyace.

A yayin wannan binciken, an yi amfani da nanoparticles na jan karfe zuwa auduga da polyester ta hanyar da ake kira, "Polymer Surface Grafting."Nanoparticles na jan karfe na tsakanin 1-100 nanometers an haɗa su zuwa kayan ta amfani da goga na polymer.Goga na polymer taro ne na macromolecules (kwayoyin da ke ɗauke da adadi mai yawa na atom) waɗanda aka haɗa a ƙarshen ɗaya zuwa ƙasa ko ƙasa.Wannan hanya ta haifar da haɗin gwiwar sinadarai mai ƙarfi tsakanin ƙwayoyin nanoparticles na jan karfe da saman yadudduka.

"An gano cewa jan karfe nanoparticles sun kasance daidai kuma an rarraba su sosai a saman," in ji binciken.zayyana.Abubuwan da aka bi da su sun nuna "ayyukan ƙwayoyin cuta masu inganci" akan Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) da Escherichia coli (E. coli).Sabbin kayan masarufi da waɗannan masana kimiyyar kayan suka haɓaka suna da ƙarfi kuma ana iya wanke su - har yanzu sun nunaantibacterialresistant aiki bayan 30 wanke hawan keke.

"Yanzu da kayan haɗin gwiwarmu suna ba da kyawawan kaddarorin ƙwayoyin cuta da ɗorewa, yana da babbar dama ga aikace-aikacen likitanci da na kiwon lafiya na zamani," in ji Liu.

Cututtukan ƙwayoyin cuta babban haɗari ne ga lafiya a duniya.Suna iya bazuwa a kan tufafi da saman a cikin asibitoci, suna kashe dubun-dubatar rayuka da biliyoyin daloli a kowace shekara a cikin Amurka kaɗai.

Gregory Grass na Jami'ar Nebraska-Lincoln yana dayayi karatubusasshen jan ƙarfe na iya kashe ƙwayoyin cuta akan hulɗar ƙasa.Duk da yake yana jin saman jan karfe ba zai iya maye gurbin wasu mahimman hanyoyin kiyaye tsabtar tsabta a wuraren kiwon lafiya ba, yana tunanin "hakika za su rage farashin da ke da alaƙa da cututtukan da ke kamuwa da asibiti da magance cututtukan ɗan adam, tare da ceton rayuka."

An yi amfani da ƙarfe azamanmagungunan antimicrobialna dubban shekaru kuma an maye gurbinsu da kwayoyin maganin rigakafi a tsakiyar karni na 20.A cikin 2017takardamai suna, "Tsarin maganin ƙwayoyin cuta na tushen ƙarfe," Raymond Turner na Jami'ar Calgary ya rubuta, "Yayin da bincike har zuwa yau akan MBAs ([maganin rigakafi na ƙarfe)) yana da alƙawarin alƙawarin, fahimtar fahimtartoxicologydaga cikin waɗannan karafa a kan mutane, dabbobi, amfanin gona da ƙananan halittu gabaɗaya sun yi karanci."

"Mai ɗorewa da Washable Antibacterial Copper Nanoparticles Gada ta Surface Grafting Polymer Brushes akan Auduga da Kayan Polymeric,"aka buga a cikinJaridar Nanomaterialsa shekarar 2018.