Face masks and respirators: Towards sustainable materials and technologies to overcome the shortcomings and challenges

S Bhattacharjee, P Bahl, AA Chughtai, D Heslop… - Nano …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The unprecedented threat of COVID‐19 and the likelihood of other emerging infectious
diseases have accentuated the need for sustainable and effective masks and respirators …

[HTML][HTML] High-speed scattered-light imaging for sizing respiratory droplets

A Roth, D Frantz, M Stiti, E Berrocal - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated the lack of knowledge regarding the airborne
transmission pathway of disease. The pathway consists of pathogens contained in small …

Interferometric laser imaging for respiratory droplets sizing

L Grandoni, L Méès, N Grosjean, G Leuzzi, P Monti… - Experiments in …, 2023 - Springer
Due to its importance in airborne disease transmission, especially because of the COVID-19
pandemic, much attention has recently been devoted by the scientific community to the …

High-speed shear-induced micro regenerated cellulose materials preparation: A promising solution for highly efficient and low pressure drop air filtration using …

Q Hu, X Gao, H Zhang, T Si, X Tang, L Peng - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellulose has attracted much attention in application of air filtration for the excellent ability of
degradability and biocompatibility. However, limited by the strength of natural structure, air …

Effect of sneeze flow velocity profiles on the respiratory droplets dispersion in a confined space: An experimental and computational fluid dynamics study

A Bahramian, G Ahmadi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, the effects of sneeze velocity profiles, including peak velocity (PV), peak
velocity time (PVT), and sneeze duration time (SDT), on the dispersion of respiratory …

Characteristics of human-related droplet dynamic patterns inside urban bus with numerical simulation approach: Impacts of solar radiation, ventilation modes and …

Y Zhao, C Gu, X Song, Z Luo, J Wang - Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Nowadays, urban bus has become one of the closely human-related environments. The
exhaled droplets when passengers breath, talk, cough and sneeze will undergo a series of …

Investigating airborne transmission risks: A mathematical model of evaporating droplets with solid residue

LS Pan, FY Leong, E Klaseboer, CW Kang… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlit the scientific field of fluid dynamics governing airborne
transmission through virus-laden mucosal-salivary droplets. In this work, a mathematical …

Overview of the role of spatial factors in indoor SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a space-based framework for assessing the multi-route infection risk

Q Zhen, A Zhang, Q Huang, J Li, Y Du… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has lasted from 2019 to 2022, severely disrupting human health
and daily life. The combined effects of spatial, environmental, and behavioral factors on …

Numerical modeling of sneeze airflow and its validation with an experimental dataset

W Oh, R Ooka, H Kikumoto, M Han - Indoor air, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we aimed at providing datasets using experimental results to validate the
sneeze airflow. In addition, the boundary conditions for the sneeze simulation that could …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of upper respiratory tract anatomy and head movement on the buoyant flow and particle dispersion generated in a violent expiratory event

J Pallares, A Fabregat, S Cito - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2022 - Elsevier
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, interest in understanding the turbulent dispersion of
airborne pathogen-laden particles has significantly increased. The ability of infectious …