ReviewSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2021
Functionalized Masks: Powerful Materials against COVID-19 and Future Pandemics.
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39 citing papers in PubMed.
- Advances in electrospun nanofiber-based personal protective equipment for active filtration.Discover nano · 2026Review
- Smart Face Masks as Wearable Respiratory Sensors: A Review of Sensor Technologies, Materials, and Future Directions.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026Review
- Integrating Alkali Lignin into Electrospun PET Nanofibers for Enhanced Viral Protection in Respiratory Masks.ACS omega · 2026Article
- Assessment and prediction of copper release amount from copper oxide facepieces.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Reusable Personal Protective Equipment Viewed Through the Lens of Sustainability.International dental journal · 2024Review
- Exploring the need for surgical face masks in operating room: a comprehensive literature review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Review
- Cu-ZnO Embedded in a Polydopamine Shell for the Generation of Antibacterial Surgical Face Masks.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- One-step silver coating of polypropylene surgical mask with antibacterial and antiviral properties.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Infrastructure in the Age of Pandemics: Utilizing Polypropylene-Based Mask Waste for Durable and Sustainable Road Pavements.Polymers · 2023Article
- Quaternary ammonium-based coating of textiles is effective against bacteria and viruses with a low risk to human health.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Single-Layer and Double-Layer Filtration Materials Based on Polyvinylidene Fluoride-Co-hexafluoropropylene Nanofibers Coated on Melamine Microfibers.ACS applied nano materials · 2023Article
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- Attaching protein-adsorbing silica particles to the surface of cotton substrates for bioaerosol capture including SARS-CoV-2.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Electrospun Metal-Organic Framework-Fabric Nanocomposites as Efficient Bactericides.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2023Article
- High-breathable, antimicrobial and water-repellent face mask for breath monitoring.Chemical engineering journal (Lausanne, Switzerland : 1996) · 2023Article
- Wearable Graphene-based smart face mask for Real-Time human respiration monitoring.Materials & design · 2023Article
- Research progress in preparation, properties, and applications of medical protective fiber materials.Applied materials today · 2023Review
- Functional Fiber Membranes with Antibacterial Properties for Face Masks.Advanced fiber materials · 2023Article
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- Electrospun PVB/AVE NMs as mask filter layer for win-win effects of filtration and antibacterial activity.Journal of membrane science · 2023Review
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Abstract
The outbreak of COVID-19 revealed the vulnerability of commercially available face masks. Without having antibacterial/antiviral activities, the current masks act only as filtering materials of the aerosols containing microorganisms. Meanwhile, in surgical masks, the viral and bacterial filtration highly depends on the electrostatic charges of masks. These electrostatic charges disappear after 8 h, which leads to a significant decline in filtration efficiency. Therefore, to enhance the masks' protection performance, fabrication of innovative masks with more advanced functions is in urgent demand. This review summarizes the various functionalizing agents which can endow four important functions in the masks including i) boosting the antimicrobial and self-disinfectant characteristics via incorporating metal nanoparticles or photosensitizers, ii) increasing the self-cleaning by inserting superhydrophobic materials such as graphenes and alkyl silanes, iii) creating photo/electrothermal properties by forming graphene and metal thin films within the masks, and iv) incorporating triboelectric nanogenerators among the friction layers of masks to stabilize the electrostatic charges and facilitating the recharging of masks. The strategies for creating these properties toward the functionalized masks are discussed in detail. The effectiveness and limitation of each method in generating the desired properties are well-explained along with addressing the prospects for the future development of masks.
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