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Smart Mask as Wearable for Post-Pandemic Personal Healthcare
A mask serves as a simple external barrier that protects humans from infectious particles from poor air conditions in the surrounding environment. As an important personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect our respiratory system, masks are able not only to filter pathogens and dust particles but...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9953568/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36831971 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios13020205 |
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author | Li, Jingcheng Yin, Jing Ramakrishna, Seeram Ji, Dongxiao |
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description | A mask serves as a simple external barrier that protects humans from infectious particles from poor air conditions in the surrounding environment. As an important personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect our respiratory system, masks are able not only to filter pathogens and dust particles but also to sense, reflect or even respond to environmental conditions. This smartness is of particular interest among academia and industries due to its potential in disease detection, health monitoring and caring aspects. In this review, we provide an overlook of the current air filtration strategies used in masks, from structural designs to integrated functional modules that empower the mask’s ability to sense and transfer physiological or environmental information to become smart. Specifically, we discussed recent developments in masks designed to detect macroscopic physiological signals from the wearer and mask-based disease diagnoses, such as COVID-19. Further, we propose the concept of next-generation smart masks and the requirements from material selection and function design perspectives that enable masks to interact and play crucial roles in health-caring wearables. |
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spelling | pubmed-99535682023-02-25 Smart Mask as Wearable for Post-Pandemic Personal Healthcare Li, Jingcheng Yin, Jing Ramakrishna, Seeram Ji, Dongxiao Biosensors (Basel) Review A mask serves as a simple external barrier that protects humans from infectious particles from poor air conditions in the surrounding environment. As an important personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect our respiratory system, masks are able not only to filter pathogens and dust particles but also to sense, reflect or even respond to environmental conditions. This smartness is of particular interest among academia and industries due to its potential in disease detection, health monitoring and caring aspects. In this review, we provide an overlook of the current air filtration strategies used in masks, from structural designs to integrated functional modules that empower the mask’s ability to sense and transfer physiological or environmental information to become smart. Specifically, we discussed recent developments in masks designed to detect macroscopic physiological signals from the wearer and mask-based disease diagnoses, such as COVID-19. Further, we propose the concept of next-generation smart masks and the requirements from material selection and function design perspectives that enable masks to interact and play crucial roles in health-caring wearables. MDPI 2023-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9953568/ /pubmed/36831971 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios13020205 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Li, Jingcheng Yin, Jing Ramakrishna, Seeram Ji, Dongxiao Smart Mask as Wearable for Post-Pandemic Personal Healthcare |
title | Smart Mask as Wearable for Post-Pandemic Personal Healthcare |
title_full | Smart Mask as Wearable for Post-Pandemic Personal Healthcare |
title_fullStr | Smart Mask as Wearable for Post-Pandemic Personal Healthcare |
title_full_unstemmed | Smart Mask as Wearable for Post-Pandemic Personal Healthcare |
title_short | Smart Mask as Wearable for Post-Pandemic Personal Healthcare |
title_sort | smart mask as wearable for post-pandemic personal healthcare |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9953568/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36831971 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bios13020205 |
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