InterPore Involved in COVID-19 Research

The previous Newsletter featured an article from Noushine Shahidzadeh discussing protective masks. As a result, we received questions from around the world about masks: How do masks work? How can we make masks? How can we test masks?

Protective masks are considered vital in the global battle against COVID-19, but relies on correct use of the masks and under the given circumstances. We hope that the InterPore community can make a contribution to tune global policies for the use of masks. Therefore, we have set up a forum. We hope to gather both questions and answers related to masks, such as experimental data (porosity, permeability, wettability, etc.), descriptions of the related physics and chemistry, and simulations of the transport-related processes occurring in and around the masks.