Meltblown fabric vs nanofiber membrane, which is better for fabricating personal protective equipments

作     者：Junwei Wu Hongjia Zhou Jingyi Zhou Xiao Zhu Bowen Zhang Shasha Feng Zhaoxiang Zhong Lingxue Kong Weihong Xing Junwei Wu;Hongjia Zhou;Jingyi Zhou;Xiao Zhu;Bowen Zhang;Shasha Feng;Zhaoxiang Zhong;Lingxue Kong;Weihong Xing

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical EngineeringNational Engineering Research Center for Special Separation MembraneNanjing Tech UniversityNanjing 210009China Jiangsu Jiulang High-Tech Co.LtdNanjing 210009China Department of Material and Chemical EngineeringSoochow UniversitySuzhou 215006China Institute for Frontier MaterialsDeakin UniversityGeelongVictoria 3216Australia 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering》 (中国化学工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第34卷第8期

页      面：1-9页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0821[工学-纺织科学与工程] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 0703[理学-化学] 082104[工学-服装设计与工程] 

基　　金：the National Key Research&Development Program of China(2018YFE0203500) the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21921006,21878148) the Key Industrial Research and Development International Cooperation Project(BZ2018004)。 

主　　题：Filtration efficiency Meltblown fabrics Nano cobweb-biomimetic membrane Reusable mask 

摘      要：The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic has led to a great demand on the personal protection products such as reusable masks.As a key raw material for masks,meltblown fabrics play an important role in rejection of aerosols.However,the electrostatic dominated aerosol rejection mechanism of meltblown fabrics prevents the mask from maintaining the desired protective effect after the static charge degradation.Herein,novel reusable masks with high aerosols rejection efficiency were fabricated by the introduction of spider-web bionic nanofiber membrane(nano cobweb-biomimetic membrane).The reuse stability of meltblown and nanofiber membrane mask was separately evaluated by infiltrating water,75%alcohol solution,and exposing under ultraviolet(UV)light.After the water immersion test,the filtration efficiency of meltblown mask was decreased to about 79%,while the nanofiber membrane was maintained at 99%.The same phenomenon could be observed after the 75%alcohol treatment,a high filtration efficiency of 99%was maintained in nanofiber membrane,but obvious negative effect was observed in meltblown mask,which decreased to about 50%.In addition,after long-term expose under UV light,no filtration efficiency decrease was observed in nanofiber membrane,which provide a suitable way to disinfect the potential carried virus.This work successfully achieved the daily disinfection and reuse of masks,which effectively alleviate the shortage of masks during this special period.