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Monday, December 14, 2020

Tel Aviv University (TAU) - LED lights found to kill coronavirus: Global first in fight against COVID-19

Title:
LED lights found to kill coronavirus: Global first in fight against COVID-19
 
Published:
Tel Aviv University, 14 December 2020
 
From the article:
This is the first study conducted on the disinfection efficiency of UV-LED irradiation at different wavelengths or frequencies on a virus from the family of coronaviruses. The study was led by Professor Hadas Mamane, Head of the Environmental Engineering Program at TAU’s School of Mechnical Engineering, Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering. The article was published in November 2020 issue of the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology.

See also the scholarly article, titled UV-LED disinfection of Coronavirus: Wavelength effect, published in the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, Volume 212, November 2020: