About the Authors
- Beeta Ehdaie
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Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Unviersity of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Chloe T. Rento
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Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Unviersity of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Veronica Son
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Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Unviersity of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Sydney S. Turner
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Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Unviersity of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- Amidou Samie
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Venda, Department of Chemistry, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, Limpopo Province, South Africa
- Rebecca A. Dillingham
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
- James A. Smith
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* E-mail: jsmith@virginia.edu
Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Unviersity of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
JAS and BE have explored commercialization of this silver-ceramic technology through the NSF I-Corps program. JAS has helped to form a public benefit company (MadiDrop PBC) to commercialize a similar technology. JAS is a company board member and shareholder of MadiDrop PBC.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: BE JAS AS RAD. Data curation: BE JAS. Formal analysis: BE JAS. Funding acquisition: JAS. Investigation: BE CTR VS SST JAS. Methodology: BE JAS RAD. Project administration: BE JAS. Resources: BE AS JAS. Supervision: BE JAS AS RAD. Validation: BE CTR VS SST AS JAS. Visualization: BE JAS. Writing – original draft: BE JAS. Writing – review & editing: BE CTR VS SST AS JAS RAD.