{"id":104711,"date":"2020-04-03T14:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/uh-professor-develops-coating-that-protects-ppe-from-droplets-that-spread-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-04-03T14:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:42:28","slug":"uh-professor-develops-coating-that-protects-ppe-from-droplets-that-spread-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/uh-professor-develops-coating-that-protects-ppe-from-droplets-that-spread-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"UH professor develops coating that protects PPE from droplets that spread COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uh-professor-develops-coating-that-protects-ppe-from-droplets-that-spread-covid-193.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2014 A University of Houston professor is waiting for FDA approval of a waterproofing solution that he says can shield personal protective equipment such as N95 masks from the droplets that spread COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stories.uh.edu\/2020-covid-maskcoating\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Seamus Curran said he developed the hydrophobic coating in 2011 while testing it on fabrics<\/a>. He continued creating similar solutions to be used on wood and masonry with his company, Integricote.<\/p>\n<p>When COVID-19 broke out, he felt the coating could help, especially as health care workers warned of a nationwide shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as N95 masks that health care workers wear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 A University of Houston professor is waiting for FDA approval of a waterproofing solution that he says can shield personal protective equipment such as N95 masks from the droplets that spread COVID-19. Professor Seamus Curran said he developed the hydrophobic coating in 2011 while testing it on fabrics. He continued creating similar solutions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}