Advanced materials for personal thermal and moisture management of health care workers wearing PPE

L Lou, K Chen, J Fan - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, the development of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care
workers (HCWs) attracted enormous attention, especially during the pandemic of COVID-19 …

Valorization of disposable COVID-19 mask through the thermo-chemical process

S Jung, S Lee, X Dou, EE Kwon - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
It becomes common to wear a disposable face mask to protect from coronavirus disease 19
(COVID-19) amid this pandemic. However, massive generations of contaminated face mask …

Medical textiles

H Morris, R Murray - Textile Progress, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Medical textiles is an emerging specialist field within the textile industry showing substantial
growth in the amount of research attention it has attracted over the past ten years and it is …

The COVID-19 pandemic reshapes the plastic pollution research–a comparative analysis of plastic pollution research before and during the pandemic

Q Wang, M Zhang, R Li - Environmental research, 2022 - Elsevier
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated plastic pollution worldwide. So
has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the research on plastic pollution? This work aims to …

Textiles for healthcare and medical applications

S Rajendran, SC Anand, AJ Rigby - Handbook of technical textiles, 2016 - Elsevier
This chapter discusses the need for understanding the application of textile materials and
textile-based medical devices to enhance the healthcare and well-being of people. The aim …

Fabrication of reusable bioprotective nanofabric with passive nano-Ag/Joule thermal disinfection properties for real-time wireless fine biomotion and gesture sensing

C Wang, L Feng, S Xu, Y Zhao, L Yao, J Ge, T Sun… - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The frequent outbreaks of new infectious diseases, with increased difficulty in prevention
and control, have raised higher requirements for bio-protective smart textiles. However …

Motion comfort analysis of tight-fitting sportswear from multi-dimensions using intelligence systems

P Cheng, J Wang, X Zeng… - Textile Research …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Focusing on the “human–sport-clothing” system, this paper analyzed the influence of
combinations of different tights and sport states on human body parts and overall body …

Modeling the effect of weave structure and fabric thread density on the barrier effectiveness of woven surgical gowns

M Maqsood, Y Nawab, STA Hamdani… - The Journal of The …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Surgical gowns are the shielding cloths worn by the surgical team throughout a surgery to
save them from blood pathogens of the patient being operated, and to avoid bacterial …

Improving medical textiles to create a greener operating theatre

H Morris, R Murray - The Journal of The Textile Institute, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
By generating almost 5% of the world's carbon emissions, healthcare, if it were a country,
would be the world's fifth biggest polluter and for the UK in 2017, the health sector alone was …

Thermal comfort properties of nonwoven fabrics used in surgical gowns

SH Eryuruk, BK Kayaoglu, P Altay - IOP Conference Series …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Nonwoven fabrics are used for surgical gown applications due to their low cost, lightweight,
durability, breathability, low hairiness and disposability. Multi-layered nonwovens with …