The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Tuesday awarded a Turkish nanotechnology firm, Nanosilver, which conducts research and development in Turkey's Teknopark Istanbul, with a nanosized silver project.
“With deep powder metals, we produce different noble metal powders in nano size. With the pandemic process, nano silver production accelerated because silver has been used since ancient Egypt because of its antibacterial and antiviral features,” Tanra Gurcay added. “Nano silver is the most advanced hygiene product, of course, it is used in more areas, in space, in health, but hygiene is one of them. Our dream was to expose it as an attempt to emerge in the right place and at the right time. In order to save people from the infection, as people who understand it best, we decided to take such an initiative,” Tanra Gurcay says.
Thanks to their unique method, there is no chemical waste and toxic waste left in their materials. This is what brought them the best research of the Year award at the International Conference on nano technology and the World Conference on new technologies. “It is important for our lovely country. It is used in many different products, from defence industry to food protection, self hygiene and so on.”