Science

The Science of Byotrol

The Old World
For the last 100 years cleaners like bleach, disinfectant and biocides have been the primary weapons in our battle against microbes. Based largely on pre-war technology these products all work on the same basic principle. They kill microbes by simply poisoning them or they destroy them with chemical burns.

While effective at one level this approach does come at a price. The most immediate is that some products can be toxic or at worst poisonous, damaging and indiscriminate.

These old technologies only work during the short time they are being used during cleaning. They stop as soon as they are dry which in some cases can be within 5 minutes of use. With no long lasting effect the field is clear for bacteria and other microbes to quickly recolonise. The staggeringly fast reproduction rates mean that the next day a single surviving bacteria can have up to 8 million descendants!

The New World
Byotrol is a revolution. It works in a different way.

Byotrol tackles the problem of microbes by getting down to their level, and using a more certain way of eliminating all the millions of different types of bugs by focusing on the one thing that is common to all micro-organisms.their size!

Microbes are tiny; rather than using only a chemical action Byotrol uses surface tension; a mechanical force that affects tiny things in a big way. The result is a physical action that is devastating to the microbe's invisible world, but almost undetectable at human scale.

Byotrol's force literally pulls the microbes apart ripping them open and utterly destroying them and because of the way it is created, it stays on surfaces for hours and days. The result; a microscopic barrier that's invisible to the naked eye, can't be felt by human hands, but is absolutely deadly to microbes. A technology that offers a lasting protection and reassurance hour, after hour, after hour.

No other technology can do this.

Science in Detail

This combination creates a thermally and chemically stable species that exists as a colloidal micelle in aqueous solutions. Byotrol is not a new chemical or compound but a structured combination of existing and well-known ingredients combined together in a new way that makes them much more effective. This means it's based on materials which are tried, trusted and have already received regulatory approval.

The polymer is typically hydrophobic in nature and preferentially adheres (affixes) the Byotrol molecule to hard surfaces and organic materials. This adherent/hydrophobic quality also makes the biocides water resistant. All of this means the biocides remain in place and effective for longer. In turn this creates an incredibly hostile environment for microbes and a long-lasting residual anti microbial action. (It lasts for 7 days even on stainless steel and glass).

The effect of this structure means Byotrol delivers significant multiplier effects on performance improvement to the biocides. Less does even more, as a result of the molecular Byotrol structure and longevity of action. This leads to considerable ecotox and toxilogical advantages.

The Byotrol technology creates a structure that delivers both physical and chemical control of microbes. The physical force creates a stress on the microbes and is generated by a steep surface energy gradient created between the polymer and biocides. This action relies on harnessing surface tension which increases as size decreases, and so is highly effective at targeting the small size of micro-organisms, but is has no measurable effect on larger organisms.

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