Dongchedi learned from Nissan that on September 21, Nissan Motor Company announced that it had jointly developed a new technology with the School of Pharmacy of Tohoku University in Japan. This technique can use catalyst active substances to inactivate viruses.

text: Original by Dongchedi Li Dezhe

[Original by Dongchedi Industry] Dongchedi learned from Nissan that on September 21, Nissan Motor Company announced that it has jointly developed a new technology with the School of Pharmacy of Tohoku University in Japan. This technique can use catalyst active substances to inactivate viruses.

Nissan announced the use of catalysts to inactivate virus new technology

I still remember that in the early stages of the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020, many domestic car companies have successively competed to deploy "healthy cars". For example, BAIC, GAC, BYD and even Qoros have launched configurations such as CN95 certified air conditioning filter , remote one-click antivirus, Chinese medicine fragrance health care technology, etc.

However, this technology jointly developed by Nissan is a potential application to inactivate viruses by oxidizing, denaturing and degrading proteins and other substances on the surface of the virus.

In the early stages of the outbreak, car companies rushed to launch the concept configuration of "healthy car"

It is understood that this technology uses organic nitrosyl radical oxidation catalyst (free radical catalyst). They use molecular oxygen in ambient air as terminal oxidizing organic compounds in the presence of appropriate catalysts.

study found that the oxoammonium salts produced by free radical catalysts through aerobic oxidation will oxidize and inactivate the virus's surface proteins, thereby reducing their ability to bind to target cells . Furthermore, the receptor binding domain of the SARS-CoV2 (microvirus strain) spike protein significantly reduced the binding of the spike protein to the receptor.

Inactivated virus indicates

Nissan introduced that in addition to inactivate viruses (including novel coronaviruses), this technology can also inactivate pathogens such as fungi and bacteria . It has the potential for wide applications in the future, including filters for air conditioning equipment and air purifier as well as masks and medical textiles as basic materials for antibacterial and antiviral.