TY - JOUR
T1 - COVID-19
T2 - A Call for Physical Scientists and Engineers
AU - Huang, Haiyue
AU - Fan, Chunhai
AU - Li, Min
AU - Nie, Hua Li
AU - Wang, Fu Bing
AU - Wang, Hui
AU - Wang, Ruilan
AU - Xia, Jianbo
AU - Zheng, Xin
AU - Zuo, Xiaolei
AU - Huang, Jiaxing
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Profs. R.A. Lamb, J. Cao, L.T. Sun, Z.Y. Tang, S.T. Wang, and Dr. H. Park for helpful discussions; S.J. Fodor, C.T. Kang, Prof. Y. Huang, and Drs. L.S. Sapochak, B. Schwenzer, and C.M. Oertel for warm encouragement; E. Huang, A. Morris, and the ACS Nano editorial team for editing and proofreading the manuscript. J.H. thanks the support of the National Science Foundation (RAPID DMR-2026944). The authors salute the healthcare, public health workers, and many others that are at the frontline of this global pandemic and wish to see people breaking the boundaries and working together to create solutions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic is one of those global challenges that transcends territorial, political, ideological, religious, cultural, and certainly academic boundaries. Public health and healthcare workers are at the frontline, working to contain and to mitigate the spread of this disease. Although intervening biological and immunological responses against viral infection may seem far from the physical sciences and engineering that typically work with inanimate objects, there actually is much that can - and should - be done to help in this global crisis. In this Perspective, we convert the basics of infectious respiratory diseases and viruses into physical sciences and engineering intuitions, and through this exercise, we present examples of questions, hypotheses, and research needs identified based on clinicians' experiences. We hope researchers in the physical sciences and engineering will proactively study these challenges, develop new hypotheses, define new research areas, and work with biological researchers, healthcare, and public health professionals to create user-centered solutions and to inform the general public, so that we can better address the many challenges associated with the transmission and spread of infectious respiratory diseases.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic is one of those global challenges that transcends territorial, political, ideological, religious, cultural, and certainly academic boundaries. Public health and healthcare workers are at the frontline, working to contain and to mitigate the spread of this disease. Although intervening biological and immunological responses against viral infection may seem far from the physical sciences and engineering that typically work with inanimate objects, there actually is much that can - and should - be done to help in this global crisis. In this Perspective, we convert the basics of infectious respiratory diseases and viruses into physical sciences and engineering intuitions, and through this exercise, we present examples of questions, hypotheses, and research needs identified based on clinicians' experiences. We hope researchers in the physical sciences and engineering will proactively study these challenges, develop new hypotheses, define new research areas, and work with biological researchers, healthcare, and public health professionals to create user-centered solutions and to inform the general public, so that we can better address the many challenges associated with the transmission and spread of infectious respiratory diseases.
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U2 - 10.1021/acsnano.0c02618
DO - 10.1021/acsnano.0c02618
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32267678
AN - SCOPUS:85083194985
JO - ACS Nano
JF - ACS Nano
SN - 1936-0851
ER -