Our products are developed by Edwards NanoScience, Inc. who is a major shareholder of MicroSweep Corp.  Edwards develops proprietary technologies and incorporates those into our patent pending and trade secret based products.

Primary Technologies

Our products today use three primary technologies:

1.       Photocatalytic production of a contained decontaminating plasma;

2.       Metallic and teflon decontaminating surfaces coated with porous, permanent nanoparticle coatings;

3.       Corona Discharge technology.

Photocatalytic Technology

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 BioTower family of products 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.

Corona Discharge Technology

This is an electrical discharge characterized by a corona and occurring when one of two electrodes in a gas has a shape causing the electric field at its surface to be significantly greater than that between the electrodes.  It is a type of electrical conduction that generally occurs at or near atmospheric pressure in gases.  The strong electric field splits the ozygen molecule into atomic oxygen which reforms with molecular oxygen into trivalent O3 ozone molecules.  It is the technology used by our Restore 30X product line to generate prodigious amounts of ozone that is transported by tubing and manifolds to multiple rooms simultaneously for restoration procedures.  We couple the use of corona discharge technology with oxygen concentration technology that creates dry, 95% pure oxygen from the ambient air as feedstock for the Restore 30x high output ozone generator.

Photocatalytic Technology In The BioTower

The BioTower was designed to maximize use of photocatalytic technology.  Essentially, the BioTower 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 BioTower to do the same thing to pathogens.

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

4. Prevent Large Protein Fragment Escape At the device outlet a 0.3 micron HEPA filter returns any partially disintegrated protein fragments to the reactor chamber for further cascade breakdown and complete dissolution.

5. Supplemental Feed Gas  A rear inlet port allows optional infusion of supplemental water vapor, oxygen, or hydrogen peroxide vapor to enhance the lethal performance rating of the device, should the operator choose this option.

6. Export of Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor  Purified hydrogen peroxide vapor is produced on the internal surfaces of the reactor chamber.  H₂O₂ molecules are somewhat more stable than the rest of the eradication family members, (but less stable than ozone O₃), and leave the top of the unit to continue their dismantling work outside the chamber for another 15 minutes before decaying harmlessly.

7. 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.

The excellent field performance of the BioTower since its introduction can be reviewed by downloading this report, click here.