Prior to his executive service at Mobil, Dr. Stancell spent the first ten years of his career in research, where he was awarded nine patents in the field of polymer processes and ultrathin membranes.

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Once these polymers come into contact with water in or on the body, they self assemble into a new polymer structure that is designed to target bacteria membranes based on electrostatic interaction and break through their cell membranes and walls.

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