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The Energy and Environmental Footprints of COVID-19 Fighting Measures - PPE, Disinfection, Supply Chains.

To manage the COVID-19 pandemic, development of rapid, selective, sensitive diagnostic systems for early stage β-coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) virus protein detection i...

Electrochemical SARS-CoV-2 Sensing at Point-of-Care and Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent COVID-19 Management

The ongoing worldwide pandemic due to COVID-19 has created awareness toward ensuring best practices to avoid the spread of microorganisms. In this regard, the research on creating a surface which destroys or inhibits the adherence of microbial/viral entities has gained renewed interest. Although many research reports are available on the antibacterial materials or coatings, there is a relatively small amount of data available on the use of antiviral materials. However, with more research geared toward this area, new information is being added to the literature every day. The combination of antibacterial and antiviral chemical entities represents a potentially path-breaking intervention to mitigate the spread of disease-causing agents. In this review, we have surveyed antibacterial and antiviral materials of various classes such as small-molecule organics, synthetic and biodegradable polymers, silver, TiO2, and copper-derived chemicals. The surface protection mechanisms of the materials against the pathogen colonies are discussed in detail, which highlights the key differences that could determine the parameters that would govern the future development of advanced antibacterial and antiviral materials and surfaces.

Antibacterial and antiviral functional materials: Chemistry and Biological Activity toward Tackling COVID-19-like Pandemics

Indoor Air Quality: Rethinking rules of building design strategies in post-pandemic architecture.

Resilient and agile engineering solutions to address societal challenges such as coronavirus pandemic

The term “nature-inspired” is associated with a sequence of efforts to understand, synthesize and imitate any natural object or phenomenon either in a tangible or intangible form, which allows us to obtain improved insights into nature. Such inspirations can come through materials, processes, or designs that we see around us. Materials, as opposed to processes and designs found in nature, are tangible and can readily be used without engineering efforts. One such example is that of an aquaporin that is used to filter water. The scope of this work in nature-inspired materials is to define, clarify, and consolidate our current understanding by reviewing examples from the laboratory to industrial scale to highlight emerging opportunities. A careful analysis of “nature-inspired materials” shows that they possess specific functionality that relies on our ability to harness particular electrical, mechanical, biological, chemical, sustainable, or combined gains. A natural plant leaf compared with a highly engineered nature-inspired artifically fabricated leaf. Taking inspiration from natural materials can help shape the future of materials to address sustainability issues. The unique functions that have arisen in living organisms as a result of evolution can help scientists develop novel materials. Saurav Goel from London South Bank University, UK, and his team review a wide range of examples from the laboratory and industry. Such examples include gaining insights from photosynthesis to develop photocatalysts and artificial photosynthesis, from plant roots in order to filter water, from electric eels to guide the conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy and from biomineralization to create ceramics at lower temperatures. Their review also sheds light on subtle differences between the terms ‘inspiration’, ‘mimetics’ and ‘mimicry’ from a design-to-manufacture perspective.

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Sara Hawi

Papers

Resilient and agile engineering solutions to address societal challenges such as coronavirus pandemic

Nature inspired materials: Emerging trends and prospects

Critical Review of Nanopillar-Based Mechanobactericidal Systems

Magnetic field assisted 3D printing of short carbon fibre-reinforced polymer composites

Automatic Parkinson's disease detection based on the combination of long-term acoustic features and Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC)