![]() “If you can clean effectively, as we’re doing here, then you can stop the bugs ever entering the body. Leighton says that with further funding, the team will be able to shrink down the current design to a more readily-installable system. ![]() In hospitals, StarStream could play a crucial role in maintaining a sterile environment without contributing to humanity’s ever decreasing antibiotic and anti-microbial resistance levels. StarStream has also been used to cleaning surgical instruments and removing biological contaminants from medical appliances and surgical steel. Their demonstrations have included removal of dental bacteria that lead to common mouth, tongue, and tooth diseases, and the separation of soft tissue from bone, which is a crucial step to successful surgical transplants. The patented prototype looks a lot like a hairdryer, and is designed mostly for more common cleaning situations, but the StarStream team has already proven numerous highly sensitive applications for the cleaning technology. The StarStream is already patented technology in limited commercial production by Ultrawave Ltd., and the team has won numerous awards for the device’s promise to disrupt the cleaning product industry. StarStream’s nothing-but-water cleaning power is its most innovative feature, but the technology will also serve to enhance the effectiveness of any standard soap, detergent, or bleach cleaning product. The research team found that activating the surfaces of bubbles in water with ultrasound waves creates such high shear and rubbing that each one becomes the ideal micro-scrubber in any liquid solution. Professor Tim Leighton and his team at the University of Southampton’s Institute of Sound and Vibration Research set out to create a micro-scrubbing solution that would be able to clean all kinds of complex surfaces without bleach and chemical detergents. Just like that, regular water is imbued with cleaning power you’ve only ever heard advertised on late-night infomercials. Using a single nozzle, StarStream can load any liquid with ultrasonic cleaning bubbles, bringing micro-scrubbing power to plain old tap water or increasing the cleaning power of detergents.Īs ultrasonic waves activate the stream of water from the StarStream nozzle, the oscillation of the sound waves turns every bubble into a tiny micro-scrubber that can clean flat surfaces, cracks, crevices, and practically any tough-to-reach spot. What if you could wash your hands thoroughly and effectively with nothing more than cold water? What if you could clean countertops, floors, or even medical tools without using any harsh chemicals? how crazy would that be A new device called StarStream creates a whole new kind of cleaning solution by combining ultrasound waves and bubbles with regular cold water.
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