A smartphone microscopic method for rapid screening of cloth facemask fabrics during pandemics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In pandemics, because of increased demand and subsequent shortage of commercial facemasks, people need to use cloth facemasks, although such masks are reported to provide reduced protection. These masks can be prepared in local levels from different fabric materials. In developing countries, cloth masks are preferable because of low cost and added advantages of reusability. The filtering performance of a cloth facemask depends on the facial fit and on the material properties of fabrics such as porosity, yarn spacing or packing, and pore size. In resource limited settings, an affordable and easy to implement method that can assess the surface properties of cloth facemask fabrics would be important.

Methods

In this work, we developed a smartphone microscopic method

SUBMITTER: Neupane BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7396138 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature