[HTML][HTML] Fluid dynamics of respiratory droplets in the context of COVID-19: Airborne and surfaceborne transmissions

P Katre, S Banerjee, S Balusamy, KC Sahu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Several
countries have experienced repeated periods of major spreading over the last two years …

Drying of bio-colloidal sessile droplets: Advances, applications, and perspectives

A Pal, A Gope, A Sengupta - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Drying of biologically-relevant sessile droplets, including passive systems such as DNA,
proteins, plasma, and blood, as well as active microbial systems comprising bacterial and …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into the evaporation characteristics of saliva droplets and aerosols: levitation experiments and numerical modeling

C Lieber, S Melekidis, R Koch, HJ Bauer - Journal of aerosol science, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the transmission phenomena of SARS-CoV-2 by virus-laden droplets and
aerosols is of paramount importance for controlling the current COVID-19 pandemic …

Computational characterization of inhaled droplet transport to the nasopharynx

S Basu - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
How human respiratory physiology and the transport phenomena associated with inhaled
airflow in the upper airway proceed to impact transmission of SARS-CoV-2, leading to the …

On secondary atomization and blockage of surrogate cough droplets in single-and multilayer face masks

S Sharma, R Pinto, A Saha, S Chaudhuri, S Basu - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Face masks prevent transmission of infectious respiratory diseases by blocking large
droplets and aerosols during exhalation or inhalation. While three-layer masks are generally …

Airborne virus transmission via respiratory droplets: Effects of droplet evaporation and sedimentation

M Rezaei, RR Netz - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2021 - Elsevier
Airborne transmission is considered as an important route for the spread of infectious
diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and is …

Aerosol generation in public restrooms

JH Schreck, MJ Lashaki, J Hashemi, M Dhanak… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Aerosolized droplets play a central role in the transmission of various infectious diseases,
including Legionnaire's disease, gastroenteritis-causing norovirus, and most recently COVID …

Assessing suspension and infectivity times of virus-loaded aerosols involved in airborne transmission

T Merhi, O Atasi, C Coetsier… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Airborne transmission occurs through droplet-mediated transport of viruses following the
expulsion of an aerosol by an infected host. Transmission efficiency results from the …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing the dominant SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes toward an ab initio disease spread model

S Chaudhuri, S Basu, A Saha - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Identifying the relative importance of the different transmission routes of the SARS-CoV-2
virus is an urgent research priority. To that end, the different transmission routes and their …

The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is vulnerable to moderate electric fields

CR Arbeitman, P Rojas, P Ojeda-May… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Most of the ongoing projects aimed at the development of specific therapies and vaccines
against COVID-19 use the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein as the main target. The binding of …