Scientific Paper
An approach to compare performance of surgical masks for fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic
Summary
A simple way to rank surgical masks by how well they stop aerosols, using a quartz crystal microbalance to weigh the particles that pass through and taking into account the full size range of human-exhaled aerosol. Several commercial masks were compared, and the results were checked against SEM images of their fabrics.
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