Sick buildings can be made healthy and air scrubbed free of dust mites and microbes by a photocatalytic air cleaner developed at the University of Florida. It uses light and a titanium dioxide catalyst to oxidise any microbes, dust mites and mould spores in stale air flushed through it.
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