Support of intelligent emergent materials to combat COVID-19 pandemic
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2021-01-01البيانات الوصفية
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The COVID-19 pandemic, associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection
transmitted via human to human and cause lifethreatening
respiratory diseases, has emerged as an everincreasing
global health and economic crisis since its declaration
by the World Health Organization (WHO) in early
Jan 2020. Despite the development of several vaccines and
initiation of vaccination programs, it is very likely that we will
have to continue our lives under now became normal preventative
measures for several more years.While this global battle
against the pandemic is carried out on the frontlines by
healthcare providers, another major effort are underway by
scientists and engineers in research labs around the globe for
investigating better therapies, detection systems, and safety
aspects. In this unprecedented scenario, experts are seeking
fast, practical, and effective ways to support healthcare providers
in treating patients and prevent or slow further spread of
the virus. In this dazzling race against time, materials science
is one of the fields that is contributing significantly, due to a
substantial cumulative knowledge that can be translated rapidly
to clinical practice. Novel material approaches of tunable
performance can be useful for various multi-tasking applications
such as accurate diagnosis of viral infection from patient
samples, sanitizing or preventing viral accumulation on surfaces,
alternative sources and sanitation for personal protective
equipment, effective delivery and binding of antiviral
agents to the virus, reprogramming of the immune system,
and even development of injectable synthetic compounds to
compete with the virus in binding to viral receptors.
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