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Sustainable personal protective clothing for healthcare applications: A review

Sustainable personal protective clothing for healthcare applications: A review
Sustainable personal protective clothing for healthcare applications: A review
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical to protect healthcare workers (HCWs) from highly infectious diseases such as COVID-19. However, hospitals have been at risk of running out of the safe and effective PPE including personal protective clothing needed to treat patients with COVID-19, due to unprecedented global demand. In addition, there are only limited manufacturing facilities of such clothing available worldwide, due to a lack of available knowledge about relevant technologies, ineffective supply chains, and stringent regulatory requirements. Therefore, there remains a clear unmet need for coordinating the actions and efforts from scientists, engineers, manufacturers, suppliers, and regulatory bodies to develop and produce safe and effective protective clothing using the technologies that are locally available around the world. In this review, we discuss currently used PPE, their quality, and the associated regulatory standards. We survey the current state-of-the-art antimicrobial functional finishes on fabrics to protect the wearer against viruses and bacteria and provide an overview of protective medical fabric manufacturing techniques, their supply chains, and the environmental impacts of current single-use synthetic fiber-based protective clothing. Finally, we discuss future research directions, which include increasing efficiency, safety, and availability of personal protective clothing worldwide without conferring environmental problems.
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Kim, Il-Doo
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Novoselov, Kostya S.
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Karim, Nazmul, Afroj, Shaila, Lloyd, Kate, Oaten, Laura Clarke, Andreeva, Daria V., Carr, Chris, Farmery, Andrew D., Kim, Il-Doo and Novoselov, Kostya S. (2020) Sustainable personal protective clothing for healthcare applications: A review. ACS Nano. (doi:10.1021/acsnano.0c05537).

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Personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical to protect healthcare workers (HCWs) from highly infectious diseases such as COVID-19. However, hospitals have been at risk of running out of the safe and effective PPE including personal protective clothing needed to treat patients with COVID-19, due to unprecedented global demand. In addition, there are only limited manufacturing facilities of such clothing available worldwide, due to a lack of available knowledge about relevant technologies, ineffective supply chains, and stringent regulatory requirements. Therefore, there remains a clear unmet need for coordinating the actions and efforts from scientists, engineers, manufacturers, suppliers, and regulatory bodies to develop and produce safe and effective protective clothing using the technologies that are locally available around the world. In this review, we discuss currently used PPE, their quality, and the associated regulatory standards. We survey the current state-of-the-art antimicrobial functional finishes on fabrics to protect the wearer against viruses and bacteria and provide an overview of protective medical fabric manufacturing techniques, their supply chains, and the environmental impacts of current single-use synthetic fiber-based protective clothing. Finally, we discuss future research directions, which include increasing efficiency, safety, and availability of personal protective clothing worldwide without conferring environmental problems.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 31 August 2020
Published date: 27 October 2020

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Local EPrints ID: 495564
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/495564
ISSN: 1936-0851
PURE UUID: 5da37e46-f021-407d-b58d-26664f62238e
ORCID for Nazmul Karim: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4426-8995

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Date deposited: 18 Nov 2024 17:38
Last modified: 23 Nov 2024 03:13

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Author: Nazmul Karim ORCID iD
Author: Shaila Afroj
Author: Kate Lloyd
Author: Laura Clarke Oaten
Author: Daria V. Andreeva
Author: Chris Carr
Author: Andrew D. Farmery
Author: Il-Doo Kim
Author: Kostya S. Novoselov

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