{"id":489,"date":"2020-08-25T09:51:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T16:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=489"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T05:15:00","slug":"performance-of-fabrics-for-home-made-masks-against-the-spread-of-covid-19-through-droplets-a-quantitative-mechanistic-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/25\/performance-of-fabrics-for-home-made-masks-against-the-spread-of-covid-19-through-droplets-a-quantitative-mechanistic-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance of Fabrics for Home-Made Masks against the Spread of COVID-19 through Droplets: A Quantitative Mechanistic Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>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 &gt;94% efficiency compared to medical mask by reducing the velocity of transmitted droplets and subsequently trapping them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eml.2020.100924\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eml.2020.100924<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &gt;94% efficiency compared to medical mask by reducing the velocity of transmitted droplets&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/25\/performance-of-fabrics-for-home-made-masks-against-the-spread-of-covid-19-through-droplets-a-quantitative-mechanistic-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-masks","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}