Meltblown fabric vs nanofiber membrane, which is better for fabricating personal protective equipments
Separation Science and Engineering|Updated:2026-01-06
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Meltblown fabric vs nanofiber membrane, which is better for fabricating personal protective equipments
Chinese Journal of Chemical EngineeringVol. 36, Issue 8, Pages: 1-9(2021)
Affiliations:
1. State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, National Engineering Research Center for Special Separation Membrane, Nanjing Tech University,Nanjing,China,210009
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a great demand on the personal protection products such as reusable masks. As a key raw material for masks
meltblown fabrics play an important role in rejection of aerosols. However
the electrostatic dominated aerosol rejection mechanism of meltblown fabrics prevents the mask from maintaining the desired protective effect after the static charge degradation. Herein
novel reusable masks with high aerosols rejection efficiency were fabricated by the introduction of spider-web bionic nanofiber membrane (nano cobweb-biomimetic membrane). The reuse stability of meltblown and nanofiber membrane mask was separately evaluated by infiltrating water
75% alcohol solution
and exposing under ultraviolet (UV) light. After the water immersion test
the filtration efficiency of meltblown mask was decreased to about 79%
while the nanofiber membrane was maintained at 99%. The same phenomenon could be observed after the 75% alcohol treatment
a high filtration efficiency of 99% was maintained in nanofiber membrane
but obvious negative effect was observed in meltblown mask
which decreased to about 50%. In addition
after long-term expose under UV light
no filtration efficiency decrease was observed in nanofiber membrane
which provide a suitable way to disinfect the potential carried virus. This work successfully achieved the daily disinfection and reuse of masks
which effectively alleviate the shortage of masks during this special period.
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