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ReviewAdvanced materials interfaces2019

Graphene Modified Multifunctional Personal Protective Clothing.

Shovon Bhattacharjee, Rakesh Joshi, Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Chandini Raina Macintyre

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Review in Advanced materials interfaces, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

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69citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Advances in 2D materials for wearable biomonitoring.Materials science & engineering. R, Reports : a review journal · 2025
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  15. Advances in Printed Electronic Textiles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Shovon BhattacharjeeBiosecurity Program The Kirby Institute University of New South Wales Kensington Sydney NSW 2052 Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1241-641X
Rakesh JoshiSchool of Materials Science and Engineering University of New South Wales Kensington Sydney NSW 2052 Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7497-9499
Abrar Ahmad ChughtaiSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine University of New South Wales Kensington Sydney NSW 2052 Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4203-7891
Chandini Raina MacintyreCollege of Public Service and Community Solutions and College of Health Solutions Arizona State University Tempe AZ 85287 USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3060-0555

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Personal protective clothing is intended to protect the wearer from various hazards (mechanical, biological, chemical, thermal, radiological, etc.) and inhospitable environmental conditions that may cause harm or even death. There are various types of personal protective clothing, manufactured with different materials based on hazards and end user requirements. Conventional protective clothing has impediments such as high weight, bulky nature, lack of mobility, heat stress, low heat dissipation, high physical stress, diminishing dexterity, diminishing scope of vision, lack of breathability, and reduced protection against pathogens and hazards. By virtue of the superlative properties of graphene, fabrics modified with this material can be an effective means to overcome these limitations and to improve properties such as mechanical strength, antibacterial activity, flame resistance, conductivity, and UV resistance. The limitations of conventional personal protective equipment are discussed, followed by necessary measures which might be taken to improve personal protective equipment (PPE), the unique properties of graphene, methods of graphene incorporation in fabrics, and the current research status and potential of graphene-modified performance textiles relevant to PPE.

Indexed as

graphenegraphene/polymer compositesprotective clothingtextiles

Identifiers

PMID32313805
PMCPMC7161773

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