The new anti-pollution technology is contained in a paint. It’s called Airlite. For Milan breathing. Technology enclosed in a painting, which may eliminate in just 12 hours pollution of 92 cars with petrol engines and 72 cars with diesel engine € 6 . The technology is called Airlite; to invent was the Bologna Massimo Bernardoni, that the Milanese Antonio Cianci is leading on the world stage.
Airlite reduces pollutants in a natural way, through a chemical-physical process of photocatalysis that has always existed in nature but which has been refined and “engaged” for the first time on a paint. The process, similar to photosynthesis clorifilliana, harnesses the power of light to free oxidizing molecules that attack the pollutants transforming them into harmless minerals and neutralizing them. In this way, Airlite can kill up to 88.8% of pollutants in the air.
To better illustrate this assumption, we will say that painting the outer surface of a 7-storey building (1000 square meters), with Airlite, within 12 hours would be removed pollution from over 70 car diesel Euro 6. Taking into account that in the Province of Milan there are, according to data of the 2011 census, about 280,000 buildings and that there are about 1.8 million vehicles, considering a yield of 50%, if only 20% of the buildings present in the province would use this technology, it would be possible to eliminate every day the exhaust gases of all the cars present in the Province.
How Airlite? Normal paintings are resinous, based on oil, which is organic matter. Airlite is a powder, then inorganic. Photocatalysis is activated by titanium dioxide, in a process similar to the photosynthesis of plants: “Airlite uses light energy to produce ionization of the air near the surface – says Antonio Cianci, Kauffman Fellow and co-founder of the company – making it possible, to the contact of the polluted air with the surface, the transformation of the pollutants hazardous to health, including nitric oxide, in water-soluble mineral salts, the same ones that are found in mineral water, which are absolutely harmless . This technology is also applicable in offices and homes, where it allows to reduce pollution at the same, effective way. “
But there’s more. Airlite also allows the total reduction of mold and bacteria, wiping out any pathogen. A sort of natural purifier, activated by light, the cost of a normal paint. This caliber was the technological matrix that enabled the start-up of winning, last May, the talent Shark Tank, promoted by Italy and one for companies seeking finance for projects that are genuinely innovative. Thanks to Shark Tank and operation of fund raising closed in September 2015, Airlite -which is headed now to AM Technology is headquartered in London and is controlled by a company structure which sees Antonio Cianci and Massimo Bernardoni hold the majority with the Indian Arun Jaiadev- raked funding for a total of 2 million euro and is presented to the world as the technology of the future.
For Milan, the solution Airlite could be immediate, a sustainable cost, put in place just bleaching the walls of the buildings with new, revolutionary painting that contains a unique technology: anti pollution , the anti-mold and antibacterial, deodorant in a natural manner, capable of breaking down the temperature inside the buildings they save on air conditioners in the summer and, finally, completely free of poisons because inorganic and therefore devoid of heavy metals. It is an ambitious challenge, but it can be won by uniting the traditional measures (reduction of pollution sources, development of public transport, use of heating systems more efficient), also technological innovations that address the problem from a different point of view.
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