Particle assisted removal of microbes from surfaces.

Unlabelled: Increased reliance on kill based approaches for disinfection raises concerns of antimicrobial resistance development and has significantly elevated the need for alternate approaches for skin and substrate disinfection. This study focuses on reducing harmful microbes from substrates primarily via removal and to a lesser extent by kill.

Hypothesis: Functional micro-particles designed to adhere to microbes, with a force greater than the force of microbial adhesion to the substrate, would result in enhanced removal-based disinfection of substrates when subject to an external force.