Mask that can kill germs!

A team of scientists at India's School of Biomedical Engineering under the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi has developed an anti-microbial five-layered face mask that it claims can kills pathogenic microorganisms. Traditional  masks acts only as a filter to stop the entry of microbes to oral and nasal airways but does not have any effect on the microbe which get stuck to the mask surface. But the Indian team came up with a solution. The first layer of the mask can degrade any type of Ribonucleic acid (RNA), the next layer is anti-microbial, the third one is for air filtration and the fourth and fifth layers are 'comfortable layers' which will remain close to the nose and mouth, a lead scientist of the project said. The mask has hydrophobic surface on the outer layer to deflect water droplets containing the viruses, he added.

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