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UK, SCC Team Up to Confront COVID-19 With Antiviral Membrane, 3D-printed Face Masks

Posted on 3 years ago

A team from the University of Kentucky and Somerset Community College (SCC) is creating 3D-printed, membrane-filtered face masks that can inactivate the coronavirus.

With an overall goal to protect people from breathing in viruses and to eliminate them on contact, Eric Wooldridge, professor of additive manufacturing at SCC, and his team will be providing the substrates, or the structure, of the masks while Isabel Escobar, professor of chemical and materials engineering in the UK College of Engineering and associate director of UK’s Center of Membrane Sciences, is working to perfect the central component of the masks — the filter.

You can find the full article about the UK/SCC project and research here.

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