Shipping and medicine? It is a surprising symbiosis but one that has generated a solution that combats two important issues.
Firstly, it could eliminate the need for the high levels of copper traditionally used in marine coatings, thus reducing their potential risk of poisoning the water.
Secondly, it could prevent the build-up of barnacles on vessel hulls, where increased friction reduces efficiency and increases fuel consumption as well as noxious emissions to the air.
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