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cord-025623-1v9614f8	Mahapatra, Pallab Sinha	Surface Treatments to Enhance the Functionality of PPEs	2020-05-29		.txt	text/plain	2039	131	48	This paper focuses on improving PPE functionality in a scalable manner by surface treatment and coating with appropriate materials and other functional enhancements, such as exposure to UV rays or other sterilizing agents (e.g., hydrogen peroxide). Surface treatments to enhance resistance against diseasecausing microbes, i.e., antimicrobial coatings, have the potential to improve PPE functionalities dramatically. Hydrophobic coatings make it difficult for droplets/particles to adhere on surfaces and are known to provide antimicrobial characteristics, which are retained after multiple washes; antibacterial and antifungal properties were demonstrated by Mukherjee et al. Klibanov's group at MIT has shown extended functionality of hydrophobic coating characteristics against influenza viruses, which get transmitted through respiratory droplets, like SARS-CoV-2; Halder et al. Scalable surface treatment strategies that combine antiviral action with liquid-repelling properties are one of many possible approaches to enhance the functionality of PPEs, thereby serving to satisfy their high demand in the healthcare industry and other fronts where the COVID-19 pandemic is being fought.	./cache/cord-025623-1v9614f8.txt	./txt/cord-025623-1v9614f8.txt