Indoor air quality strategies for air-conditioning and ventilation systems with the spread of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic: Improvements and …

AM Elsaid, MS Ahmed - Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The coronavirus has come to the world and spread with great wide among the countries of
the world and has resulted in numerous infections that exceeded 167,181,023 million …

Electrospun ultrafine fibers for advanced face masks

Z Zhang, D Ji, H He, S Ramakrishna - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has triggered great global public …

Utilizing electrostatic effect in fibrous filters for efficient airborne particles removal: Principles, fabrication, and material properties

Y Gao, E Tian, Y Zhang, J Mo - Applied Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Particulate matter (PM) poses a severe health threat to the public, and fibrous filtration is a
powerful method for efficient PM removal. Arming the fibers with electrostatic effect is a gold …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 impact on operation and energy consumption of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems

W Zheng, J Hu, Z Wang, J Li, Z Fu, H Li, J Jurasz… - Advances in Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system is favourable for regulating indoor
temperature, relative humidity, airflow pattern and air quality. However, HVAC systems may …

A review of strategies and their effectiveness in reducing indoor airborne transmission and improving indoor air quality

AN Nair, P Anand, A George, N Mondal - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Airborne transmission arises through the inhalation of aerosol droplets exhaled by an
infected person and is now thought to be the primary transmission route of COVID-19. Thus …

Electrostatic Polydopamine-Interface-Mediated (e-PIM) filters with tuned surface topography and electrical properties for efficient particle capture and ozone removal

Y Gao, E Tian, J Mo - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Ambient particulate matter (PM) poses severe environmental health risks to the public
globally, and efficient filtration technologies are urgently needed for air ventilation. In this …

Experimental studies on electrostatic-force strengthened particulate matter filtration for built environments: Progress and perspectives

E Tian, Y Gao, J Mo - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Every year, ambient particulate matter (PM) causes more than one million deaths worldwide.
Considering that people spend more than 80% of their time indoors, there is an urgent need …

Removal of SARS-CoV-2 using UV+ Filter in built environment

Z Feng, SJ Cao, F Haghighat - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Air cleaning is an effective and reliable method in indoor airborne SARS-CoV-2 (Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona-Virus 2) control, with ability of aerosol removal or …

Experimental study on the control effect of different ventilation systems on fine particles in a simulated hospital ward

X Kong, C Guo, Z Lin, S Duan, J He, Y Ren… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, a large number of respiratory infectious diseases (especially COVID-19)
have broken out worldwide. Respiratory infectious viruses may be released in the air …

Electrostatic air filtration by multifunctional dielectric heterocaking filters with ultralow pressure drop

E Tian, F Xia, J Wu, Y Zhang, J Li… - ACS applied materials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In air filtration, for creating healthy indoor air, there is an intrinsic conflict between high
filtration efficiency and low wind pressure drop. In this study, we overcame this conflict by …