Our products are developed by Edwards NanoScience, Inc. ("ENS"), our technology licensor.  ENS develops its proprietary technologies into our patent pending and trade secret based products.

Primary Technologies

Our products today use four primary technologies:

1.       Photoelectric generation of powerful oxygen-based decontamination gases.
2.       Non-toxic photocatalytic decontaminating grids with permanent, non-eroding nano-crystal coatings;
3.       Solid state chemical neutralization

Photoelectric Generation

The products generate a field of high energy dismantling agents that literally pull the electrons of hydrogen atoms out of long chain organic molecules, rendering them into smaller and smaller protein fragments.  This cascade process eventually eradicates pathogen fragments back to natural elements, with little visible residue.  The technology incorporates a number of sciences, including the photoelectric effect, discovered by Heinrich Hertz in 1887 and explained by Albert Einstein in 1905 for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1921.  Our products convert electric energy via the photoelectric effect into excitation of semiconductor nanoparticles, (a different technology), that in-turn produce a powerful plasma field of free radicals that reestablish their missing covalent bond by pulling a hydrogen atom’s electron out of organic matter.  This field of dismantling agents destroys pathogens, allergies, and malodors in the air before you breathe it.  The BioKill product family uses this technology which we call Super Redox.

Nanotech Carrier Coatings

We use nanotechnology-based carrier coatings to present our pathogen destruction technologies to the contaminants targeted for elimination.  Advanced Sol Gel coating technology is primarily used.  We have a durable, yet porous coating capable of withstanding harsh environments, yet receptive enough to attract and hold live pathogens within the interstitial cavities while they undergo elimination.  Our products use carrier coatings for photocatalytic semiconductor payloads in the 10-20 nanometer diameter range, coated on pure teflon mesh, on teflon over-coated screens specially made from stainless or alumina, and on silica glass and quartz walls of high and low energy UV lamps.

Photocatalytic Technology In The BioKill Products
The BioKill models were designed to maximizethe  use of photoelectric and photocatalytic technologies.  Essentially, the BioKill models creates a high intensity Eradication Plasma within the device that molecularly dismantles all organic matter suspended in the air passing through it.  Physics-wise it is a sophisticated device that simultaneously creates seven different dismantling agent groups working synergistically and interactively to eradicate contaminants.  The interactivity phenomenon is manifested in frequent conversion of a given dismantling species into a different species within the plasma, either temporarily or permanently until species extinction (often nanoseconds).

Eradication Plasma Species

1. Powerful Singlet Oxygen and Oxyradical Plasma   A dense cloud of powerful molecular oxidizers attack bio-particles and rapidly begin breaking the carbon bonds that form their cellular matter.  Approximately 70% of the system’s energy goes into creating this powerful sterilizing plasma, which includes singlet oxygen O₂(¹delta_g) , superoxide, hydrogen peroxide and three oxyradicals: hydroxyl radicals, the atomic oxygen radical, and hydroperoxide radicals. These agents remain in the chamber to do their work.

 



2. Photocatalytic Production of Hydroxyl Radicals  Semiconductor nanoparticles coated on the entire inner chamber wall undergo a photocatalytic reaction driven by the UV energy field.  They convert water vapor in the air or feed gas into more hydroxyl radicals projecting from the entire inner surface.  This is the strongest, and highest concentration dismantling agent in the Eradication Plasma.  The OH radicals are very potent one-electron oxidants that steal hydrogen molecules from the organic material, leaving decayed carbon ions in their place.  The theft of hydrogen from organic molecules by hydroxyl radicals forms even stronger OH bonds, with even higher oxidation, as a result of water vapor present.  The process turns into a chain reaction… the breakdown and formation of new OH radicals results in continual decay of the organic material.  This happens in the human body as well, where this agent has been called The Dangerous Hydroxyl Radical.  The hydroxyl radical is a third generation species of radical which is derived from hydrogen peroxide, which, in turn, is derived (in the body) from the superoxide radical through the action of the enzyme superoxide dismutase.  According to one scientist, "If the function of radicals is to destroy molecules and tissues, then the hydroxyl radical would be the radical's radical. It reacts at diffusion rates with virtually any molecule found in its path including macromolecules such as DNA, membrane lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates.  In terms of DNA, the hydroxyl radical can induce strand breaks as well as chemical changes in the deoxyribose and in the purine and pyrirnidine bases.  Damaged proteins, many of them crucial enzymes in neurons, lose their efficiency and cellular function wanes. Protein oxidation in many tissues, including the brain, has been proposed as an explanation for the functional deficits associated with aging."

We use this powerful radical in the BioKill-100 to do the same thing to pathogens.

3. Beneficial Germicidal Radiation  Air comes into the inlet of the unit carrying suspended bacteria, viruses, mold and mold spores.  High intensity germicidal irradiation at 254 nanometers wavelength within the unit is lethal to these incoming airborne microorganisms, creating peptide bonds within their DNA, preventing them from further replicating while they undergo eradication in the reaction chamber.

4. Prevent Agglomerated Pathogens From Escaping  Air being treated must pass through a nanocrystal coated metal mesh .  This photocatalytically activated mesh creates more hydroxyl radicals that molecularly disintegrate clumps of pathogens that may agglomerate to defend themselves against earlier decontamination stages in the reactor chamber.

5. Export of Concentrated Ozone O₃   Purified trivalent oxygen, (ozone), is produced.  This contributes to oxidization within the chamber and production of more oxyradicals there, partially by cannibalization of other dismantling agents.  Ozone molecules are more stable than the rest of the eradication family members, and leave the top of the unit to continue their work outside the chamber for another 30-60 minutes before decaying harmlessly back to the natural elements from which they were made.