Project Details
Description
The recent outbreak of the pandemic Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has posed a tremendous health, social, and economic threat to our society. While masks and protective gear such as gowns and shields are effective at blocking the virus from infecting our healthcare workers and civilians, the enormous demand for personal protective equipment paired with the shortage of disposable protective gears makes it a global challenge to efficiently terminate the spreading of the highly infectious virus, COVID-19. Herein, we propose to employ antiviral nanoporous material (i.e. metal–organic framework) based composites as active mask filters and protective garment coatings to deactivate infectious viruses. The goal of the current proposal is to not only capture the viral threats by masks, but to also disintegrate them on the surfaces of the masks, thereby effectively stopping the spread of the virus and facilitating reusable masks and protective garments.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 5/15/20 → 4/30/22 |
Funding
- National Science Foundation (DMR-2029270)
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