Nano Lab’s new arthropod-killing coatings technology has profound applications.
I’m a biologist with some knowledge of how this technology might work, and whether or not if it uses the following mineral to kill bugs, widespread use of the technology will be both hygienically and financially rewarding, for all parties.
It is known, for example, that borax (which includes all of the several sodium borates), causes perforations in the chitinous exoskeletons of arthropods (insects, spiders, etc), causing them to desiccate, to dry out and die. The bugs can generate no resistance to this class of minerals. Get them touching the “skin,” and the bugs slowly die.
The very recent Nano Lab announcement that they now make coatings (paints) with arthropod-killing nano-tech surfaces with “minerals” perhaps implies the incorporation of sodium borates, which eat microscopic holes in the chitin covering of all arthropods that step or rest on such paints.
What, then, are the implications for Nano Labs per se, and NL investors?
I see two gigantic applications and outcomes (there are others).
First, imagine the applications of paints that use no toxic or short-term insecticides that are universally lethal to any cockroaches that step or crawl upon them. The announcement already states that the new coatings have acceptable, conventional paint traits, but with the additional lethality against “bugs,” arthropods.
Should such commercial coatings come into production, I can see that they will be applied on every paintable surface in restaurants, hotels, schools, hospitals, food-processing facilities—anywhere where cockroaches are current problems. Imagine the sales volume of such paints in the next few years.
But consider the other, even more difficult to control pestiferous arthropod of modern times: the bed bug.
Currently, expanding large fractions of urban bed bug populations are becoming resistant to all available and applicable insecticides. Control of bed bug populations is very expensive, involving durations of high heat (120+F), or mechanical removal of embedded populations in walls and furniture.
As most now know, it’s wise to keep your belongings in bug-proof plastic baggage when staying overnight in commercial hotels, even five-star ones. Bed bugs are proliferating, and nothing—except Nano Lab’s new paint components—offers any useful relief.
Nano Labs need to get some of their paints to some entomologists, who will demonstrate that beg bugs that try to crawl along, over, or rest on Nano Lab Bug-Zapping paints soon dry out and die—without the application or release of a single toxic molecule. And such lethality persists in the painted surface. It doesn’t evaporate away or degrade. Paint the wall or the furniture, and bed bugs are repelled or killed in perpetuity. No other such bed bug solution exists.
Soon, hotels, motels, theaters, and other public places can claim to be bed bug-free. “We use Nano Labs Bug-Zapping Paints.”
If your house becomes infested, instead of hiring an exterminator to spray toxic insecticides, you’ll hire a painter, who will use Nano Lab’s licensed Bug-Zapping paints.
I’m delighted to own a moderate position in Nano Labs. If only Nano Lab’s Bug-Zapping coatings come to commercial success, I will be handsomely rewarded. (But I’m convinced of the commercial applicability of the other techs, too.)
–Falconer66a
