{"id":214660,"date":"2025-05-24T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/closing-the-gaps-mxene-coated-air-filters-show-enhanced-performance-and-reusability"},"modified":"2025-05-24T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:09:31","slug":"closing-the-gaps-mxene-coated-air-filters-show-enhanced-performance-and-reusability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/closing-the-gaps-mxene-coated-air-filters-show-enhanced-performance-and-reusability","title":{"rendered":"Closing the gaps\u2014MXene-coated air filters show enhanced performance and reusability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/closing-the-gaps-mxene-coated-air-filters-show-enhanced-performance-and-reusability2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite improvements to air filtration technology in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the smallest particles\u2014those of automobile and factory emissions\u2014can still make their way through less efficient, but common filters. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Drexel University\u2019s College of Engineering have introduced a new way to improve textile-based filters by coating them with a type of two-dimensional nanomaterial called MXene.<\/p>\n<p>Recently published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2311-5629\/11\/1\/13\" target=\"_blank\"><i>C\u2014Journal of Carbon Research<\/i><\/a>, the team\u2019s research reports that a non-woven polyester textile\u2014a low-cost material with low filtration efficiency\u2014coated with a thin layer of MXene nanomaterial can turn it into a potent filter capable of pulling some of the finest nanoparticles from the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can be challenging for common filters to contend with particles less than 100 nanometers, which include those emitted by industrial processes and automobiles,\u201d said Michael Waring, Ph.D., a professor in Drexel\u2019s College of Engineering, and co-author of the research. \u201cBeing able to augment a filter, through a simple coating process, to make it effective against these emissions is a significant development.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite improvements to air filtration technology in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the smallest particles\u2014those of automobile and factory emissions\u2014can still make their way through less efficient, but common filters. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Drexel University\u2019s College of Engineering have introduced a new way to improve textile-based filters by coating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214660","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}