Maintaining social distance while working in a lab to make hand sanitizer is a task a group of University of Alberta scientists didn’t think would be their new reality.
That changed earlier this week. “We’re using the World Health Organization formulation,” said Jillian Buriak, professor of chemistry and research chair of nanomaterials for energy. “So this is very effective.
It’s been tested and we feel this is our small contribution to our local community.” The idea came to Buriak after seeing chemistry departments in the United States apply a similar assembly line method. “We said, ‘Holy cow, we need to do this here in Canada, and particularly Edmonton,'” said Buriak.