The COVID-19 pandemic made us all more aware of invisible germs that can infect us. At the beginning, my wife would tediously clean every piece of produce that came into the house before it hit the fruit bowl. A recent Medgadget article discussed a novel coating designed to rapidly kill a wide range of pathogens such as MRSA and SARS-CoV-2. The innovative coating uses polyurethane that has crosslinked compounds from antimicrobial essential oils.
