Graphene properties, synthesis and applications: a review

AR Urade, I Lahiri, KS Suresh - Jom, 2023‏ - Springer
We have evaluated some of the most recent breakthroughs in the synthesis and applications
of graphene and graphene-based nanomaterials. This review includes three major …

Masks for COVID‐19

W Deng, Y Sun, X Yao, K Subramanian… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sustainable solutions on fabricating and using a face mask to block the severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) spread during this coronavirus …

One-step fabrication of polylactic acid (PLA) nanofibrous membranes with spider-web-like structure for high-efficiency PM0. 3 capture

Y Zhao, J Ming, S Cai, X Wang, X Ning - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024‏ - Elsevier
High-efficiency air filters are in high demand to protect human health from the threat of
ultrafine particulate matters (PM). However, most commercial air filters are less effective for …

Nature-inspired reentrant surfaces

J Li, X Han, W Li, L Yang, X Li, L Wang - Progress in Materials Science, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Reentrant feature widely exists in natural structures ranging from mushroom, overhang,
undercut, trapezoid, sphere, spatula and taper to sharp edge, and has triggered a …

Trash to treasure: Sulfonation-assisted transformation of waste masks into high-performance carbon anode for sodium-ion batteries

S Zhang, N Sun, M Jiang, RA Soomro, B Xu - Carbon, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The global pandemic of COVID-19 poses significant challenge to the recycling of disposable
polypropylene (PP)-based waste masks. Herein, a simple but effective sulfonation route has …

Application of Interval-valued T-spherical Fuzzy Dombi Hamy Mean Operators in the antiviral mask selection against COVID-19

M Sarfraz - Journal of Decision Analytics and Intelligent Computing, 2024‏ - jdaic-journal.org
This study introduces Interval-valued T-Spherical Fuzzy Dombi Hamy Mean (IVT-SPFDHM)
Operators as a powerful tool for group decision-making. The IVT-SPFDHM operators allow …

Mitigating COVID-19 infection disease transmission in indoor environment using physical barriers

C Ren, C **, J Wang, Z Feng, F Nasiri, SJ Cao… - Sustainable cities and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
During the normalized phase of COVID-19, droplets or aerosol particles produced by
infected personnel are considered as the potential source of infection with uncertain …

Face mask detection in smart cities using deep and transfer learning: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

Y Himeur, S Al-Maadeed, I Varlamis, N Al-Maadeed… - Systems, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
After different consecutive waves, the pandemic phase of Coronavirus disease 2019 does
not look to be ending soon for most countries across the world. To slow the spread of the …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization and fine-tuning of DenseNet model for classification of COVID-19 cases in medical imaging

T Chauhan, H Palivela, S Tiwari - International Journal of Information …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
It's been more than a year that the entire world is fighting against COVID-19 pandemic.
Starting from the Wuhan city in China, COVID-19 has conquered the entire world with its …

A review of disposable facemasks during the COVID-19 pandemic: a focus on microplastics release

H Jiang, D Luo, L Wang, Y Zhang, H Wang, C Wang - Chemosphere, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The COVID-19 epidemic seriously threats the human society and provokes the panic of the
public. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are widely utilized for frontline health workers …