Edit: sorry for the previously bad link. Didn't notice.
From what I get, it looks like the traps basically smother the viral shell and prevent it from interacting with any surfaces.
They tried a couple methods to achieve this. Either assembling the shells around the virus, or starting with pre-assembled shells with a hole in them (an icosahedron with a pentagon missing.) For the latter case, they were able to neutralize more than one viral particle by making the shells big enough.
My main question is how the viruses find their way reliably into these preassembled traps.
Brownian motion means molecules inside your body move at ~10000kph (and because it’s random they don’t go anywhere). They’re bouncing around at that speed inside a 30 cubic micrometer ball.
At that speed they meet every other molecule. Not just meet, but touch them everywhere, at every angle, in every configuration.
Edit: sorry for the previously bad link. Didn't notice.
From what I get, it looks like the traps basically smother the viral shell and prevent it from interacting with any surfaces.
They tried a couple methods to achieve this. Either assembling the shells around the virus, or starting with pre-assembled shells with a hole in them (an icosahedron with a pentagon missing.) For the latter case, they were able to neutralize more than one viral particle by making the shells big enough.
My main question is how the viruses find their way reliably into these preassembled traps.