Sustainable solutions: Searching for eco-friendly ways to decontaminate PPE

Professor Neil Rowan, director of Bio-Science Research at Athlone Institute of Technology

COVID-19 is a formidable enemy that has massively impacted our lives, but it has a weakness – it’s highly susceptible to disinfectants.

Irish researchers are now exploiting this weakness to explore eco-friendly and sustainable solutions to a worldwide problem – the chronic shortage of PPE.