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Prospect of biobased antiviral face mask to limit the coronavirus outbreak

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has led to nationwide lockdowns in many countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has played serious havoc on economic activities throughout the world. Researchers are immensely curious about how to give the best protection to people before a vaccine becomes available. The corona...

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Autores principales: Chowdhury, Mohammad Asaduzzaman, Shuvho, Md Bengir Ahmed, Shahid, Md Abdus, Haque, A.K.M. Monjurul, Kashem, Mohammod Abul, Lam, Su Shiung, Ong, Hwai Chyuan, Uddin, Md Alhaz, Mofijur, M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7532771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33022215
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.110294
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author Chowdhury, Mohammad Asaduzzaman
Shuvho, Md Bengir Ahmed
Shahid, Md Abdus
Haque, A.K.M. Monjurul
Kashem, Mohammod Abul
Lam, Su Shiung
Ong, Hwai Chyuan
Uddin, Md Alhaz
Mofijur, M.
author_facet Chowdhury, Mohammad Asaduzzaman
Shuvho, Md Bengir Ahmed
Shahid, Md Abdus
Haque, A.K.M. Monjurul
Kashem, Mohammod Abul
Lam, Su Shiung
Ong, Hwai Chyuan
Uddin, Md Alhaz
Mofijur, M.
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description The rapid spread of COVID-19 has led to nationwide lockdowns in many countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has played serious havoc on economic activities throughout the world. Researchers are immensely curious about how to give the best protection to people before a vaccine becomes available. The coronavirus spreads principally through saliva droplets. Thus, it would be a great opportunity if the virus spread could be controlled at an early stage. The face mask can limit virus spread from both inside and outside the mask. This is the first study that has endeavoured to explore the design and fabrication of an antiviral face mask using licorice root extract, which has antimicrobial properties due to glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) and glycyrrhizin (GL). An electrospinning process was utilized to fabricate nanofibrous membrane and virus deactivation mechanisms discussed. The nanofiber mask material was characterized by SEM and airflow rate testing. SEM results indicated that the nanofibers from electrospinning are about 15–30 μm in diameter with random porosity and orientation which have the potential to capture and kill the virus. Theoretical estimation signifies that an 85 L/min rate of airflow through the face mask is possible which ensures good breathability over an extensive range of pressure drops and pore sizes. Finally, it can be concluded that licorice root membrane may be used to produce a biobased face mask to control COVID-19 spread.
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spelling pubmed-75327712020-10-05 Prospect of biobased antiviral face mask to limit the coronavirus outbreak Chowdhury, Mohammad Asaduzzaman Shuvho, Md Bengir Ahmed Shahid, Md Abdus Haque, A.K.M. Monjurul Kashem, Mohammod Abul Lam, Su Shiung Ong, Hwai Chyuan Uddin, Md Alhaz Mofijur, M. Environ Res Article The rapid spread of COVID-19 has led to nationwide lockdowns in many countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has played serious havoc on economic activities throughout the world. Researchers are immensely curious about how to give the best protection to people before a vaccine becomes available. The coronavirus spreads principally through saliva droplets. Thus, it would be a great opportunity if the virus spread could be controlled at an early stage. The face mask can limit virus spread from both inside and outside the mask. This is the first study that has endeavoured to explore the design and fabrication of an antiviral face mask using licorice root extract, which has antimicrobial properties due to glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) and glycyrrhizin (GL). An electrospinning process was utilized to fabricate nanofibrous membrane and virus deactivation mechanisms discussed. The nanofiber mask material was characterized by SEM and airflow rate testing. SEM results indicated that the nanofibers from electrospinning are about 15–30 μm in diameter with random porosity and orientation which have the potential to capture and kill the virus. Theoretical estimation signifies that an 85 L/min rate of airflow through the face mask is possible which ensures good breathability over an extensive range of pressure drops and pore sizes. Finally, it can be concluded that licorice root membrane may be used to produce a biobased face mask to control COVID-19 spread. Elsevier Inc. 2021-01 2020-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7532771/ /pubmed/33022215 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.110294 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Lam, Su Shiung
Ong, Hwai Chyuan
Uddin, Md Alhaz
Mofijur, M.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7532771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33022215
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.110294
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