Departmental News

Posted:  Dec 07, 2020 - 12:00am

A team led by the Center for Biomedical Engineering faculty David Whitten, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, along with Eva Chi and Linnea Ista, faculty members in the same department, have found some light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak.

The main finding of their research, highlighted in the paper, “Highly Effective Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 by Conjugated Polymers and Oligomers,” published this week in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, involves the ability of the combination of certain polymers and oligomers, when combined with UV light, to almost completely kill the coronavirus.

To read entire article UNM article by Kim Delker and Rachel Whitt:

https://news.unm.edu/news/let-there-be-light-6822777

The research was also featured on KRQE news at 

https://www.krqe.com/health/coronavirus-new-mexico/unm-researchers-using-uv-light-to-fight-covid-19/