August 25, 2020

Performance of Fabrics for Home-Made Masks against the Spread of COVID-19 through Droplets: A Quantitative Mechanistic Study

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

Keywords (Tags): masks

• Ayden et al. compared the performance of 11 common household fabrics at blocking large, high-velocity droplets using a commercial medical mask as a benchmark and found that while most fabrics have substantial blocking efficiency, two layers of highly permeable fabric can achieve >94% efficiency compared to medical mask by reducing the velocity of transmitted droplets and subsequently trapping them.

Aydin et al. (Aug 11, 2020). Performance of Fabrics for Home-Made Masks against the Spread of COVID-19 through Droplets: A Quantitative Mechanistic Study. Extreme Mechanics Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2020.100924