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Viruses inactivated by zinc-embedded nylon fabric
An international team of scientists and engineers from the University of Cambridge, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, ResInnova Labs and Ascend Performance Materials has found that a nylon fabric embedded with zinc ions successfully inactivated 99% of the viruses that cause Covid-19 and i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8550906/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0306-3747(21)00180-9 |
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description | An international team of scientists and engineers from the University of Cambridge, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, ResInnova Labs and Ascend Performance Materials has found that a nylon fabric embedded with zinc ions successfully inactivated 99% of the viruses that cause Covid-19 and influenza. |
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spelling | pubmed-85509062021-10-28 Viruses inactivated by zinc-embedded nylon fabric Additives for Polymers News An international team of scientists and engineers from the University of Cambridge, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, ResInnova Labs and Ascend Performance Materials has found that a nylon fabric embedded with zinc ions successfully inactivated 99% of the viruses that cause Covid-19 and influenza. 2021-10 2021-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8550906/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0306-3747(21)00180-9 Text en 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. |
spellingShingle | News Viruses inactivated by zinc-embedded nylon fabric |
title | Viruses inactivated by zinc-embedded nylon fabric |
title_full | Viruses inactivated by zinc-embedded nylon fabric |
title_fullStr | Viruses inactivated by zinc-embedded nylon fabric |
title_full_unstemmed | Viruses inactivated by zinc-embedded nylon fabric |
title_short | Viruses inactivated by zinc-embedded nylon fabric |
title_sort | viruses inactivated by zinc-embedded nylon fabric |
topic | News |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8550906/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0306-3747(21)00180-9 |