National Science Foundation (NSF) has called for immediate proposals that have potential to address the spread of COVID-19. Last week, Northwestern University’s Jiaxing Huang received a rapid response research (RAPID) grant from NSF to develop a new self-sanitizing medical face mask that deactivates viruses on contact. The Northwestern project is the first physical sciences and engineering proposal to receive support under the NSF RAPID call.
Current masks only provide a physical barrier to reduce the number of respiratory droplets that can escape. For the past week, Huang’s laboratory team has been working around the clock to develop a safe, drop-in, anti-viral solution that will work with current masks to deactivate viruses on contact. The mask would help reduce the level of viruses in the droplets exhaled by infected wearers and better protect the healthcare workers or others around them.
Wonderful to see engineers doing their part to meet the challenge of this unprecedented crisis and to potentially save many lives. That’s what I call achieving the extraordinary. – Dr. Tom
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