Only in dreams do zebra mussels have anything to do with implants for the brain — unless you’re Noah Snyder.
He’s now marketing a chemical compound that can both help ward off the invasive species and make medical devices safer.
The 28-year-old Mr. Snyder is president and CEO of Interphase Materials, a fledgling startup that has developed a chemical compound that can be added to coatings to repel microbes on medical and dental implants. Turns out it also works to stop metal corrosion, barnacles and zebra mussels, an invasive mollusk plaguing the Great Lakes.
