Particle removal from air by face masks made from Sterilization Wraps: Effectiveness and Reusability

Sachin Walawalkar; Manish Joshi; Navin Khattry; Balvinder Kaur Sapra; Arshad Khan; Pradeep Kumar Pujari; Lalit Mohan; Sushil Prasad Srivastava; Chital Naresh; Rajendra Badwe; Sudeep Gupta

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0240398

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Particle removal from air by face masks made from Sterilization Wraps: Effectiveness and Reusability

Sachin Walawalkar ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sachin Walawalkar, Manish Joshi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Navi- Mumbai, India
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Manish Joshi ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sachin Walawalkar, Manish Joshi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Radiological Physics and Advisory Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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Navin Khattry ,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nkhattry@gmail.com

Affiliations Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Navi- Mumbai, India, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5708-6472

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Balvinder Kaur Sapra,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Radiological Physics and Advisory Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India
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Arshad Khan,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Radiological Physics and Advisory Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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Pradeep Kumar Pujari,

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliations Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India, Radiation Chemistry and Isotope Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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Lalit Mohan,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India, Centre for Design and Manufacture (CDM), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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Sushil Prasad Srivastava,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India, Centre for Design and Manufacture (CDM), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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Chital Naresh,

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Navi- Mumbai, India
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Rajendra Badwe,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Navi- Mumbai, India, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India
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Sudeep Gupta

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Navi- Mumbai, India, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6742-6378

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Particle removal from air by face masks made from Sterilization Wraps: Effectiveness and Reusability

Sachin Walawalkar,
Manish Joshi,
Navin Khattry,
Balvinder Kaur Sapra,
Arshad Khan,
Pradeep Kumar Pujari,
Lalit Mohan,
Sushil Prasad Srivastava,
Chital Naresh,
Rajendra Badwe

Published: October 14, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240398

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