Nanotechnology Helps Iranian Expert Produce Liquid Disinfectant

Hanieh Sayahi, a faculty member of the Iran Research Center for Chemistry and Engineering, told ANA that conventional disinfectants are produced based on alcohol.

“But our product is based on gold nanoparticles dispersed in water,” she added.

“Studies and experiments show that the product is able to remove kinds of pollutants and is odorless and harmless,” Sayahi stressed.

“For the time being, we are passing the process of receiving a license from the ministry of health in order to supply the product to the market,” she pointed out.

Iran currently ranks 4th in the world in the production of nano-science. This comes as part of Iran's Nanotechnology Initiative Council’s first development plan, which has sought to advance nano-science in the country.

The second 10-year plan, which started in 2015, seeks to move nano-science from paper to the industry. In the meantime, the Nanotechnology Initiative Council is working on a third plan to trade Iranian nano-products in the global market.

Currently, nanotech products are produced and marketed in more than 15 industrial fields based on domestic technologies and are being exported to 49 countries from five continents.

Over the past year (ended March 20), the total sale of Iranian nanoproducts has been equal to 115 trillion rials (nearly $425 million).

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