{"id":85514,"date":"2020-04-23T02:37:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14961"},"modified":"2020-04-23T02:37:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T21:07:11","slug":"triboe-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/triboe-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"TriboE masks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Researchers at the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences(CeNS) have developed TriboE masks which can hold electric charges to restrict the entry of infections without any external power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The mask is based on electrostatics which uses the principles of triboelectric effect.<\/li><li>The mask is a three layered structure \u2013a layer of nylon cloth sandwiched between polypropylene layers.<\/li><li>When the layers are rubbed against each other, static electricity is produced which is expected to restrict the possible transmission of infections.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Triboelectric effect<\/strong>: It is a type of contact electrification in which certain materials become electrically charged after they are separated from a different material with which they were in contact.<\/li><li><strong>Example: <\/strong>Rubbing of a plastic pen on a sleeve of almost any typical material like cotton, wool or blended fabric used in modern clothing.Such an electrified pen would readily attract and pick up pieces of paper less than a square centimeter when the pen approaches.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Researchers at the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences(CeNS) have developed TriboE masks which can hold electric charges to restrict the entry of infections without any external power. Facts: The mask is based on electrostatics which uses the principles of triboelectric effect. The mask is a three layered structure \u2013a layer of nylon cloth&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/triboe-masks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TriboE masks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2878],"class_list":["post-85514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-triboelectric-effect","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704733820},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}