How did the testing go? The self-sterilizing surface turned out to be “highly effective in killing
bacteria,” Deane says.
That was the good news. The bad news: the existing technology to commercialize the invention
was simply too expensive. There was no way it could move forward, at least for now. “We were
ahead of the curve,” Deane says. “We just had to wait for the world to make more cost-effective
LEDs.”