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ArticlePolymers2021

Electrospun Nanofibre Filtration Media to Protect against Biological or Nonbiological Airborne Particles.

Fabrice N H Karabulut, Günther Höfler, Naveen Ashok Chand, Gareth W Beckermann

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Article in Polymers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Nanofibrous filters: A promising solution for the efficient capture of polydisperse viral aerosols.Aerosol science and technology : the journal of the American Association for Aerosol Research · 2025
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  6. Homogeneity of Needleless Electrospun Nanofiber Mats.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Fabrice N H KarabulutNanoLayr Ltd., 59 Mahunga Drive, Mangere Bridge, Auckland 2022, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0003-3326-7986
Günther HöflerNanoLayr Ltd., 59 Mahunga Drive, Mangere Bridge, Auckland 2022, New Zealand.
Naveen Ashok ChandNanoLayr Ltd., 59 Mahunga Drive, Mangere Bridge, Auckland 2022, New Zealand.
Gareth W BeckermannNanoLayr Ltd., 59 Mahunga Drive, Mangere Bridge, Auckland 2022, New Zealand.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electrospun nanofibres can outperform their melt-blown counterparts in many applications, especially air filtration. The different filtration mechanisms of nanofibres are particularly important when it comes to the air filtration of viruses (such as COVID-19) and bacteria. In this work, we present an electrospun nanofibre filter media, FilterLayr

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electrospinningface maskfilter mediananofibre

Identifiers

PMID34641073
PMCPMC8511993

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