Antiviral graphene nanofiber nonwoven filter - COVID19

蒙特利尔技术学院、ETS和NanoXplore Inc.的合作目标是开发一种用于呼吸面罩的具有更高过滤效率的无纺布过滤器。这种非织造布过滤器将由电动和溶液吹风纺丝获得的纳米纤维制成，并将含有石墨烯，以增强其细菌和病毒过滤能力，因为文献报道表明，这些类型的过滤器更有效。ETS和NanoXplore共同开发了聚合物石墨烯纳米复合材料方面的强大专业知识。这种纳米复合材料将用于通过电纺和溶液吹塑获得过滤器，这是ETS研究人员的另一项强大专业知识。 潜在的结果是加拿大当地生产了一种替代过滤材料，以保护医务人员免受新冠肺炎和其他病毒的感染。 该团队将包括ETS的三名教授和NanoXplore的两名博士研究人员积极参与这些项目。将聘请两名实习生进行由研究团队设计的实验。

The goal of this partnership between École de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal, ETS, and NanoXplore Inc. is to develop a nonwoven filter with increased filtering efficiency to be used in respiratory masks. The nonwoven filter will be made out of nanometric fibers obtained by electro and solution blow-spinning and will contain graphene to enhance its bacterial and virus filtration abilities as reports from the literature indicate that those types of filters are more efficient. Together ETS and NanoXplore have develelopped a strong expertise on polymer graphene nanocomposites. This nanocomposites will be used to obtain filters by electro and solution blow-spinning, another strong expertise of the researchers of ETS. The potential outcome is the local production of an alternative filtration material to protect medical workers from Covid-19, and other viruses, in Canada. The team will involve three professors of ETS, and 2 PhD researchers of NanoXplore working actively on the projects. Two interns will be hired to carry out the experiments that will be designed by the research team.