Frontispiece: Personalized Reusable Face Masks with Smart Nano‐Assisted Destruction of Pathogens for COVID‐19: A Visionary Road

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Abstract

The COVID‐19 pandemic has pointed out the urgent need to employ advanced and smart materials to realize innovative medical protective equipment. To this end, the next‐generation face masks are conceived to be personalized, smart, and reusable. This great achievement can be accomplished thanks to light‐responsive and fibrous nanomaterials' unique chemical and physical properties. This synergistic approach allows the realization of a new generation of face masks effective against pathogens upon light activation. For further information see the Concept article by F. Pierini et al. on page 6112.

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Prof. Filippo Pierini:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6526-4141

fpierini@ippt.pan.pl

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Chemistry

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Chemistry

Journal ID (doi): 10.1002/(ISSN)1521-3765

Journal ID (publisher-id): CHEM

Title: Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc. (Hoboken )

ISSN (Print): 0947-6539

ISSN (Electronic): 1521-3765

Publication date (Electronic): 07 April 2021

Publication date (Print): 07 April 2021

Volume: 27

Issue: 20 ( doiID: 10.1002/chem.v27.20 )

Electronic Location Identifier: 10.1002/chem.202182061

Affiliations

[ ¹ ] Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies Research Center for Biophotonics Sapienza University of Rome Corso della Repubblica 79 04100 Latina Italy

[ ² ] CNR-Lab. Licryl Institute NANOTEC 87036 Arcavacata di Rende Italy

[ ³ ] Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology Donghua University West Yan'an Road 1882 Shanghai 200051 P. R. China

[ ⁴ ] Nanobiophotonics and Laser Microspectroscopy Center Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Bio-Nano Sciences Babes-Bolyai University T. Laurian Str. 42 400271 Cluj-Napoca Romania

[ ⁵ ] Institute of Pharmacy Faculty of Medicine University of Tartu Nooruse 1 50411 Tartu Estonia

[ ⁶ ] Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development Polytechnic of Leiria Rua de Portugal 2430-080 Marinha Grande Portugal

[ ⁷ ] Institute of Crystallography CNR-IC National Research Council of Italy Via Salaria Km 29,300 00015 Monterotondo, Rome Italy

[ ⁸ ] Department of Mechanical Engineering Technion—Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000 Israel

[ ⁹ ] Department of Biosystems and Soft Matter Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences Pawińskiego 5B Warsaw 02-106 Poland

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Prof. Luciano De Sio http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-6910

Prof. Bin Ding http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1499-2154

Dr. Monica Focsan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6735-5146

Prof. Karin Kogermann http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-4828

Prof. Paula Pascoal‐Faria http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1474-9496

Dr. Francesca Petronela http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1583-5564

Prof. Geoffrey Mitchell http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7977-7610

Prof. Eyal Zussman http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4310-6548

Prof. Filippo Pierini http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6526-4141

Article

Publisher ID: CHEM202182061

DOI: 10.1002/chem.202182061

PMC ID: 8250937

SO-VID: 6607835b-c425-44b8-81fc-fc3a92e417eb

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This article is being made freely available through PubMed Central as part of the COVID-19 public health emergency response. It can be used for unrestricted research re-use and analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source, for the duration of the public health emergency.

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Figures: 2, Tables: 0, References: 0, Pages: 1, Words: 0

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Chemistry

Keywords: antipathogen,digitally personalized,electrospinning,face masks,light-responsive nanomaterials

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Keywords: antipathogen, digitally personalized, electrospinning, face masks, light-responsive nanomaterials

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