Press Release: SANTA ANA, CA
– August 3, 2015 – BioLargo, Inc. (OTCQB: BLGO)
announced today that it has hired three talented researchers to scale-up and
enhance its current AOS technology. Dr. Ahmed Moustafa, Dr. Michael Gaultois,
and Mr. Alex Evans have joined BioLargo’s Canadian subsidiary BioLargo Water Inc. and bring a vast amount of expertise to its Canadian research
capabilities. Impressive and reproducible water treatment results, combined
with a surge in awarded Canadian research and development grant funding, have
now poised the AOS technology for scale-up and further performance enhancement.
Dr. Ahmed Moustafa is spearheading the design of a scaled up AOS unit to validate
performance at industrial scale. Dr. Moustafa is a former Fulbright Scholar and
brings a superb skillset to the team, drawing on a Ph.D. in Environmental
Engineering, a Master’s in Water Resources Engineering, as well as a Master’s
in Environmental Engineering. His expertise will allow BioLargo to transition
and demonstrate the AOS technology’s capabilities for large-scale water
treatment applications.
Dr. Michael Gaultois will be
collaborating this fall with BioLargo on AOS reactor and experimental design,
as well as consulting on physical and materials chemistry. Dr. Gaultois is a
former Fulbright Scholar and has a Ph.D. in Chemistry, specific
to new functional material design and characterization, as well
as a MSc in Chemistry. He currently conducts research via a European Union Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, UK. His
expertise will be used to further refine and enhance the performance of the AOS
technology’s filter materials.
Alex Evans is assisting with initiatives that expand
the disinfection capabilities of the AOS technology. His expertise stems from a
Master of Science with Specialization in Microbiology and Biotechnology, in
which his focus was bacterial adaptation to stress. Mr. Evans’ research into the
anti viral activities of AOS will allow BioLargo
to widen the scope of the AOS technology’s disinfection applications.
The collaborative
research ongoing in our Canadian subsidiary BioLargo Water Inc. has been
recognized by other researchers as having “unprecedented” disinfection. The AOS
Filter combines iodine, water filter materials and electrolysis within a water
filter device, generating extremely high oxidation potential in order to
eliminate, soluble organic contaminants that are commonly found in many types
of contaminated water. It has been shown
to achieve extremely high rates of disinfection, eliminating infectious
biological pathogens like Salmonella,
Listeria and E.coli in water.
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