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Habitat interior dividers with antimicrobial surfaces
Partitions that give a crew privacy inside a station, built from surfaces that resist microbial growth in a closed environment.
Project page update in progressProgramNASA SBIR
Year2022
FocusHabitation · Crew health
StatusProposal
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The problem
A station is a sealed volume where air, water and surfaces are shared for months. Microbes and fungi grow on hardware that is touched every day, and on the ISS they have been found on panels, handrails and behind equipment. Interior dividers are among the largest touch surfaces in a habitat, and among the hardest to clean.