Recycling respirator masks to a high-value product: From COVID-19 prevention to highly efficient battery separator

COVID-19 is a pandemic that has caused serious disruption in almost every day-to-day life around the world, and wearing a mask is essential for human safety from this virus. However, masks are non-recyclable materials, and the accumulation of masks used every day causes serious environmental issues....

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Autores principales: Kim, Soochan, Yang, Xin, Yang, Kaiwei, Guo, He, Cho, Misuk, Kim, Young Jun, Lee, Youngkwan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8487761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34629939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.132723
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author Kim, Soochan
Yang, Xin
Yang, Kaiwei
Guo, He
Cho, Misuk
Kim, Young Jun
Lee, Youngkwan
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description COVID-19 is a pandemic that has caused serious disruption in almost every day-to-day life around the world, and wearing a mask is essential for human safety from this virus. However, masks are non-recyclable materials, and the accumulation of masks used every day causes serious environmental issues. In this study, we investigate the recycling of mask materials for addressing the environmental problems and transforming as a high value-added material through chemical modification of masks. The recycled mask is applied as a separator for aqueous rechargeable batteries, and shows outstanding safety and electrochemical performance than the existing separator. This approach will lead to an advanced energy technology considering nature after overcoming COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-84877612021-10-04 Recycling respirator masks to a high-value product: From COVID-19 prevention to highly efficient battery separator Kim, Soochan Yang, Xin Yang, Kaiwei Guo, He Cho, Misuk Kim, Young Jun Lee, Youngkwan Chem Eng J Article COVID-19 is a pandemic that has caused serious disruption in almost every day-to-day life around the world, and wearing a mask is essential for human safety from this virus. However, masks are non-recyclable materials, and the accumulation of masks used every day causes serious environmental issues. In this study, we investigate the recycling of mask materials for addressing the environmental problems and transforming as a high value-added material through chemical modification of masks. The recycled mask is applied as a separator for aqueous rechargeable batteries, and shows outstanding safety and electrochemical performance than the existing separator. This approach will lead to an advanced energy technology considering nature after overcoming COVID-19. Elsevier B.V. 2022-02-15 2021-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8487761/ /pubmed/34629939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.132723 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8487761/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.132723
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