Singaporean polytechnic student comes up with material that can make viruses 'visible'


Lukas Lee developed a self-sanitising material that changes colour when it has been touched and is contaminated. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Temasek Polytechnic product and industrial design student Lukas Lee, 19, as part of his final-year project, wanted to create an item that would be useful in an era where Covid-19 is endemic.

With this in mind, he came up with a material he has called "Aegis", which is not only self-sanitising but also changes colour when it has just been touched and is contaminated.

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