Kang, Le Ma, Caixia Wang, Jing Gao, Xiaoping An, Guangchao
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Fibers and Polymers
COVID-19 broke out all over the world, and the medical protective mask is an important epidemic prevention equipment. Traditional medical protective masks use electret polypropylene melt-blown cloth as the core filter material. However, it relies heavily on electrostatic filtration and has high filtration resistance. The one-time electret makes the...
Zhang, Xiaomin Xu, Yuanqiang Zeng, Yongchun
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Fibers and Polymers
The global outbreak of COVID-19 results in the surge of disposable sanitary supplies, especially personal protective face masks. However, the charge dissipation of the electret meltblown nonwovens, which predominate in the commercial face mask filters, confines the durability and safety of commercial face masks. Furthermore, most of the face masks ...
Güngör, Melike Çalişir, Mehmet D. Kiliç, Ali
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Fibers and Polymers
Particulate matter (PM), especially with particle diameter below 2.5 µm (PM2.5), causes serious impacts on human health. Nanofibrous filters are one of the most widely investigated materials for the filtration of PM2.5 and viruses from the air at high efficiency. Recent concerns regarding energy efficiency of air control units dictated that a high-...
Mohammadi, Mahsa Montazer, Majid Askarizadeh, Elham Bashiri Rezaie, Ali Mahmoudi Rad, Mahnaz
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Fibers and Polymers
In this research, various emulsions of copper-based nanoparticles were synthesized through the chemical reduction method followed by utilizing the pad–dry–cure technique as an industrial approach to manufacturing bactericidal polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. Copper sulfate/copper acetate, sodium hypophosphite (SHP)/ascorbic acid, and ce...
da Silva, Daniel J. Souza, Alana G. Camani, Paulo H. Rosa, Derval S.
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Fibers and Polymers
Multifunctional natural fibers with antimicrobial properties have been applied as a viable strategy to prevent microorganism contamination and proliferation on the surface of clothes and personal protection equipment marketed and used by health professionals, patients, and the general population. They present intrinsic antimicrobial capacity, provi...
Fakhri, M. Amirul Mariatti, M. Vilay, V. Todo, M.
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Fibers and Polymers
The current 3-ply facemasks are produced mostly using polypropylene (PP) as the main plastic layer that is a non-biodegradable polymer. The objective of this study was to fabricate a polylactic acid (PLA) layer, a biodegradable polymer, using the electrospinning process. Comparison on the degradation trend of PLA layer and PP layer obtained from co...
Wang, Yanen Sultana, Jakiya Rahman, Md Mazedur Ahmed, Ammar Azam, Ali Mushtaq, Ray Tahir Rehman, Mudassar
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Fibers and Polymers
The development of bamboo fibre (BF) reinforced poly lactic acid (PLA) BF-PLA composites has been growing fast among the natural fibre reinforced composites (NFRCs) over the past few years. BF-PLA composites have gained significant interest as sustainable alternative materials for the engineering and industrial sectors. BF-PLA composites are gettin...
Xu, Huawei Zhou, Zhijun Liu, Jie Zhao, Lie Xie, Sheng Zhang, Junfeng
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Fibers and Polymers
In order to enhance the fiber attenuation during the melt-blown process, a pair of air nozzle, which could erupt airflow as secondary airflow, below the spinning die was arranged and used. Firstly, the effect of applying secondary airflow on the whole airflow was explored by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation. The simulation results demo...
Taherian, Pouria Nourbakhsh, Mohammad Sadegh Mehrizi, Ali Abouei Hashemi, Mohadeseh
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Fibers and Polymers
Herbs and hand-made herbal remedies have been long used for disease control, treatment, and health improvement. Evidence suggests that a single herb’s compounds can have synergistic functions with probably no adverse effect. Unfortunately, the traditional administration of essential oil (EO) does not follow a regulatory dose regimen, causing reduce...
Liu, Fan Lu, Tong Bu, Wanjun Xiang, Hewei Yang, Junjie Li, Junli Zhao, Xu Shao, Weili Ni, Qingqing He, Jianxin
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Fibers and Polymers
Because people spend a lot of time indoors every day, the presence of particulate matter with a diameter less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5) and volatile organic molecular substances in indoor air adversely affect public health. These toxic compounds can be removed from the air using high-efficiency air-filter materials with adsorption capacity. Metal-organic...
