Certain mineral nanoparticles were found to damage the membrane of the virus ... Coronaviruses belong to a type of virus that has an outer envelope, a lipid membrane. It turned out that nanoparticles ...

Certain mineral nanoparticles were found to ... It turned out that nanoparticles of sand minerals such as titanium oxide bind very strongly to phospholipids in this membrane.

They examined 3.5-billion-year-old rocks from the Pilbara region of Western Australia under a transmission electron microscope and found unexpected minerals ... nanoparticles of fluorapatite (a ...