Rapid In Situ Thermal Decontamination of Wearable Composite Textile Materials.

Marquise D Bell, Kai Ye, Te Faye Yap, Anoop Rajappan, Zhen Liu, Yizhi Jane Tao, Daniel J Preston

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Article in ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Compliant Polymeric Sheet-Based Heat Exchangers.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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Marquise D BellDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7936-6317

Kai YeDepartment of Biosciences, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.

Te Faye YapDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6387-0837

Anoop RajappanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6843-509X

Zhen LiuDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1089-5982

Yizhi Jane TaoDepartment of Biosciences, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.

Daniel J PrestonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, George R. Brown School of Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0096-0285

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Abstract

Pandemics stress supply lines and generate shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), in part because most PPE is single-use and disposable, resulting in a need for constant replenishment to cope with high-volume usage. To better prepare for the next pandemic and to reduce waste associated with disposable PPE, we present a composite textile material capable of thermally decontaminating its surface via Joule heating. This material can achieve high surface temperatures (>100 °C) and inactivate viruses quickly (<5 s of heating), as evidenced experimentally with the surrogate virus HCoV-OC43 and in agreement with analytical modeling for both HCoV-OC43 and SARS-CoV-2. Furthermore, it does not require doffing because it remains relatively cool near the skin (<40 °C). The material can be easily integrated into clothing and provides a rapid, reusable, in situ decontamination method capable of reducing PPE waste and mitigating the risk of supply line disruptions in times of need.

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COVID-19Wearable Electronic DevicesDecontaminationHumansSARS-CoV-2Textilesconductive textileslayer-based fabricationpersonal protective equipmentthermal laminationvirus inactivationwaste reduction

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PMID37695080

DOI10.1021/acsami.3c09063

PMCPMC10521748

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