{"id":121631,"date":"2021-04-16T18:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T01:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/centrifugal-multispun-nanofibers-put-an-effective-new-spin-on-covid-19-masks"},"modified":"2021-04-16T18:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T01:22:50","slug":"centrifugal-multispun-nanofibers-put-an-effective-new-spin-on-covid-19-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/centrifugal-multispun-nanofibers-put-an-effective-new-spin-on-covid-19-masks","title":{"rendered":"Centrifugal Multispun Nanofibers Put an Effective New Spin on COVID-19 Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/centrifugal-multispun-nanofibers-put-an-effective-new-spin-on-covid-19-masks3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KAIST researchers have developed a novel nanofiber production technique called \u2018centrifugal multispinning\u2019 that will open the door for the safe and cost-effective mass production of high-performance polymer nanofibers. This new technique, which has shown up to a 300 times higher nanofiber production rate per hour than that of the conventional electrospinning method, has many potential applications including the development of face mask filters for coronavirus protection.<\/p>\n<p>Nanofibers make good face mask filters because their mechanical interactions with aerosol particles give them a greater ability to capture more than 90% of harmful particles such as fine dust and virus-containing droplets.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated the growing demand in recent years for a better kind of face mask. A polymer nanofiber-based mask filter that can more effectively block harmful particles has also been in higher demand as the pandemic continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAIST researchers have developed a novel nanofiber production technique called \u2018centrifugal multispinning\u2019 that will open the door for the safe and cost-effective mass production of high-performance polymer nanofibers. This new technique, which has shown up to a 300 times higher nanofiber production rate per hour than that of the conventional electrospinning method, has many potential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121631","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}