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Coating made from a HAIR CONDITIONER ingredient can capture aerosols and droplets containing Covid - Daily Mail

Coating made from a HAIR CONDITIONER ingredient can capture aerosols and droplets containing Covid - Daily Mail

Coating made from a HAIR CONDITIONER ingredient can capture aerosols and droplets containing Covid - Daily Mail
Jun 16, 2021 1 min, 47 secs

A wall coating made using a common hair conditioner ingredient is able to capture aerosols and droplets that contain coronavirus from the air, its developers claim. .

It is hoped the transparent coating could be applied to plexiglass screens used within supermarkets, office cubicles and restaurants to slow the spread of Covid-19. .

It can capture droplets and aerosols, effectively removing them from air and significantly reducing how far and fast the virus can spread within the environment.

A wall coating made using a common hair conditioner ingredient is able to capture aerosols and droplets that contain coronavirus from the air, its developers claim.

A 3D image shows crater-like features generated by the captured droplets. It is hoped the transparent coating could be applied to plexiglass screens used within supermarkets, office cubicles and restaurants to slow the spread of Covid-19.

A wall coating made from repurposing common ingredients in hair conditioner could help trap airborne aerosol droplets, according to US researchers.  .

They came up with the idea of turning a polymer used in hair products for locking in the moisture, into a surface coating that could capture incoming respiratory droplets and prevent them from bouncing off surfaces. .

They coated a plexiglass divider and sprayed it with a hand-held facial mister, to simulate fine respiratory aerosols emitted during speaking.

'Droplets collide with indoor surfaces all the time,' said Northwestern's Jiaxing Huang, the study's senior author, adding that plexiglass 'deflects droplets'.

Even when they bombarded surfaces with aerosol droplets the coated surfaces still captured three times more aerosol droplets than uncoated surfaces. .

If used on plexiglass barriers, those coated barriers would not need to be cleaned more frequently than uncoated barriers

Most infectious diseases spread through respiratory droplets and aerosols, which humans release constantly when talking, laughing, singing and exhaling. 

Because the coating is so versatile, Huang imagines that it could be used on plexiglass barriers and face shields as well as on no-touch or low-touch surfaces, such as walls or even curtains, to eliminate those droplets from the air

'If we repurposed these 'idling' surfaces to capture respiratory droplets, then they could become functional 'devices' to help reduce air-borne transmission of infectious diseases. 

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