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ArticleAPL materials2021

Effectiveness of antiviral metal and metal oxide thin-film coatings against human coronavirus 229E.

Louis-Vincent Delumeau, Hatameh Asgarimoghaddam, Tamiru Alkie, Alexander James Bryan Jones, Samantha Lum, Kissan Mistry, Marc G Aucoin, Stephanie DeWitte-Orr, Kevin P Musselman

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Article in APL materials, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Louis-Vincent DelumeauORCID 0000-0003-1700-0536
Hatameh Asgarimoghaddam
Tamiru AlkieDepartment of Health Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada.
Alexander James Bryan Jones
Samantha LumDepartment of Health Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5315-3543
Marc G AucoinDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9393-5558
Stephanie DeWitte-OrrDepartment of Health Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9806-7470
Kevin P MusselmanORCID 0000-0002-9752-0015
University of Waterloo · CAWilfrid Laurier University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virucidal thin-film coatings have the potential to inactivate pathogens on surfaces, preventing or slowing their spread. Six potential nanoscale antiviral coatings, Cu, Cu

Identifiers

PMID34868741
PMCPMC8638753
OpenAlexW3216984928

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