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Materials Squeaky Clean
Metropolis Magazine
|April 2018
A new product release from Porcelanosa shows how cleanability of materials is linked to creating healthy spaces.
Self-cleaning has been the holy grail of material science for the past two decades—a quest begun with the first development of a titanium dioxide coating in 1995. But a limitation of that technology and others like it is that this type of coating is easily rubbed or scratched off during regular wear and tear.
This story is from the April 2018 edition of Metropolis Magazine.
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