Research

COVID-19 Research

Title :

Development of highly water repellent and economic face mask

Area of research :

COVID-19 Research, Engineering Sciences

Focus area :

Development of face mask

Principal Investigator :

Dr Uttam Manna, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati

Timeline Start Year :

2020

Contact info :

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Executive Summary :

The superhydrophobic coating on tissue paper, is not only provided the desired durability to tissue paper towards aqueous exposure, but the extreme repellency in the coated tissue paper absolutely restricted the penetration of water droplets. Thus, this economic approach has potential to protect from contamination by corona virus containing aqueous droplets. Further, virus killing ability of this superhydrphobic coating is under progress as this superhydrophobic tissue paper is loaded with surfactant like molecules.

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