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Covid-19: Developing High Tech Protective Masks

Covid-19: Developing High Tech Protective Masks

Written by David

March 22, 2020

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As the Coronavirus panic continues to spread across the world, engineers and scientists are working hard to find new ways of developing high tech masks. 3D printing is one of the ways to cope with the mask shortage.

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We recently wrote about the scientists from the University of Leicester in the UK who are developing a face mask made using 3D-printing that can test large groups of people for Coronavirus in thirty minutes.

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Copper3D has just published an open-source STL digital file of an N95 respirator that could be 3D printed and protect against the Covid-19. The aim of this initiative, called Hack the Pandemic, is to mobilize manufacturers and printing services to make these respirators quickly available in order to tackle the lack of N95 masks (or FFP2) in the world and facilitate the work of healthcare professionals. The […]

1 Comment

  1. G Singh

    Nice article about the face mask. Regardless of the situation and circumstances, we all need to wear mask. Ideally the disposable one but if they are not available then cloth mask. Something is better than nothing. If we have to get a handle on this pandemic then we all will have to work together and wear mask, doesn’t matter where we are and what we are doing.
    G Singh

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