NanoAF prevents bacterial colonization on various surfaces
THE NEED
Biofouling is a process in which organisms and their by-products encrust a surface. The process starts with the non-specific adsorption of proteins to the surface, and continues with the attachment of the organisms to the proteins on a substrate. When the organism is pathogenic bacteria, its attachment to the surface may progress to the formation of well-organized bacterial network called biofilm. Industries such as water treatment, biomedical devices, air quality and food packaging, all suffer from problems associated with Biofilm formation.
NanoAF coating efficiently prevents protein from attaching to the surface and by doing so prevents biofilm formation. NanoAF coating is not biocidal and also prevents bacteria from evolving into stronger and more resistive forms.
Food packaging
Medical device
Water treatment
Marin antifouling
Air quality
Mold prevention
THE TECHNOLOGY
NanoAF developed, manufactures and sells a novel coating which prevents bacterial adhesion to surfaces. The coating spontaneously formed by the self-assembly of a tripeptide. The advantages of using peptides for this purpose are concealed in peptides' biocompatibility, chemical diversity, and ease for large scale synthesis. The coating is formed by the peptide on various surfaces (glass, titanium, silicon oxide, metals and polymers).
NanoAF coating completely prevents the first step of fouling which involves the adsorption of bioorganic molecules to the substrate.
NANOAF COATING
Prevents biofilm
Can be applied on all surfaces (glass, titanium, silicon oxide, metals and polymers)
Self-assemble to a monolayer coating on any target surface
Easy to synthesize
Non toxic
Non biocidal
THE PEPTIDE CHANGES THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE SUBSTRATE
Bare Mica
Peptide Coated Mica
BIOFOULING
Initial
attachment
Irreversible
attachment
Initial
growth
Final
growth
Dispersion
OUR TEAM
Yoni Meivar, CEO
Yoni Founded Gylion LTD, a company specialized in medical devices development, architecture, mechanics, algorithm development, hardware/software implementation and integration. Prior to that he
co-founded Pan VR. Yoni is a Technion graduated electronics engineer.
Meital Reches, PhD, Inventor
Meital Reches is faculty member of the Institute of Chemistry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her Ph.D. (with distinction) in 2007 from the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University. In 2007-2010, she was an EMBO and a HFSP postdoctoral research fellow at the Chemistry Department, Harvard University. Meital Reches joined the Institute of Chemistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a faculty member in October 2010. Her research focuses on understanding, controlling and developing biomolecular self-assembly processes and generating new functional materials.
CONTACT US
NanoAF LTD
Industrial park Alon Tavor
Box office 1150
Afula Ilit
1811101
