Methine initiated polypropylene-based disposable face masks aging validated by micromechanical properties loss of atomic force microscopy.

ABSTRACT: The contagious coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic has led to an increasing number of disposable face masks (DFMs) abandoned in the environment, when they are exposed to the air condition, the broken of chemical bond induced aging is inevitably occurred which meantime would cause a drastic decrease of the mechanical flexibility. However, the understanding of between chemical bond change related to aging and its micromechanical loss is limited due to the lack of refined techniques. Herein, the atomic force microscopy (AFM) technique was firstly used to observe the aging process induced by methine of the polypropylene-based DFMs. By comparing the micromechanical properties loss, the influences of humidity and light density on the DFM aging were systematically studied in the early 72 h, and it

SUBMITTER: Chen X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9398948 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature