Industry analyst firm N-tech Research recently published a report titled, Smart Antibacterial and Antiviral Markets, 2020. In the study the firm projects that the market for smart antibacterial and antiviral products will reach EUR 1.1 billion by 2025. This number includes both smart coatings and smart surfaces. Smart surfaces include products factory coated with antimicrobials and surfaces with nanotexturing that provides them with an antibacterial functionality. The materials that are explicitly covered in the report are nanosilver, copper, hydrogels, chitosan, silanes, sulfates, graphene and carbon nanotubes, AMPS, liquid metals, among many others. It also ...