{"id":142625,"date":"2022-07-21T20:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T01:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/researchers-develop-antiviral-face-mask-that-can-capture-deactivate-sars-cov-2-spike-protein-on-contact"},"modified":"2022-07-21T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T01:22:46","slug":"researchers-develop-antiviral-face-mask-that-can-capture-deactivate-sars-cov-2-spike-protein-on-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/researchers-develop-antiviral-face-mask-that-can-capture-deactivate-sars-cov-2-spike-protein-on-contact","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop antiviral face mask that can capture, deactivate SARS-CoV-2 spike protein on contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-antiviral-face-mask-that-can-capture-deactivate-sars-cov-2-spike-protein-on-contact2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of University of Kentucky researchers led by College of Engineering Professor Dibakar Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., and his Ph.D. student, Rollie Mills, have developed a medical face mask membrane that can capture and deactivate the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein on contact.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Bhattacharyya, known to friends and colleagues as \u201cDB,\u201d along with collaborators across disciplines at UK set out to create the material. Their work was published in <i>Communications Materials<\/i> on May 24.<\/p>\n<p>SARS-CoV-2 is covered in spike proteins, which allow the virus to enter host cells once in the body. The team developed a membrane that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/proteolytic+enzymes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">proteolytic enzymes<\/a> that attach to the protein spikes and deactivates them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of University of Kentucky researchers led by College of Engineering Professor Dibakar Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., and his Ph.D. student, Rollie Mills, have developed a medical face mask membrane that can capture and deactivate the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein on contact. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Bhattacharyya, known to friends and colleagues [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142625","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=142625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}