SelfCleans™ coatings proprietary technology is designed to mimic the always clean Lotus and other in nature plants and to enhance self-cleaning and antimicrobial properties of SelfCleans™ coatings by nanotechnology effects. The technology developed by American Environmental Systems, Inc., Ellicott City, Maryland is based on U.S. patented technology (U.S. Patent 7,704,754 "Method of plasmon-enhanced properties of materials and applications thereof").