Finding The Best Face Mask Materials

Finding The Best Face Mask Materials

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We want to provide you with the most comprehensive guide on the BEST materials for making DIY masks. But we need your help. With your support, we can test 50+ new materials and provide critical data for fighting Covid-19

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Update #4

almost 4 years ago

LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO GO! Last chance to have your say on the DIY face mask materials you want us to test!

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Testing Homemade Mask Materials

Three weeks ago, we published a viral article covering The Best Materials for Making DIY Masks. The response has been huge. We've been flooded with requests from readers asking us to test MORE materials. The good news is, we want to help!

How We Can Work Together

With your help, we aim to test more than 50 household materials,  providing vital information such as how thread count and material weight affects mask efficiency — something that was left out of the Cambridge researcher's data. To do this, we need your help. Running these tests and purchasing equipment that can test down to 0.01 microns isn't cheap. Our small team in Asia is working round the clock to run these tests, but with your help we can run MORE tests and have a bigger impact!

How We'll Use The Money

For every $300 we raise, we can test one new material. If we hit $35,000, we'll have enough funds purchase a PortaCount Pro+ Fit Test machine like the one we used in this experiment. With a Fit Test machine, we will also be able to test which DIY face mask design is the most effective, and provide you with a rundown of your options.

What Materials Will We Test?

We want to make this project a joint effort for everyone! That means: together we will decide what materials to test! Have your say by voting in this poll to decide what materials we test. We will pick the most-voted materials to test, based on this poll.

Who The Heck Are We?

We are Smart Air. A social enterprise and certified B-Corp battling to provide reliable and data-backed information on air quality.  Following the spread of Covid-19, our team has been working tirelessly to provide data and information on how we can protect ourselves from the coronavirus. Learn more about who the heck we are.

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Smart Air posted a new update:
almost 4 years ago

Update #4

LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO GO! Last chance to have your say on the DIY face mask materials you want us to test!

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Smart Air posted a new update:
almost 4 years ago

Update #3

We've been quiet over the past few weeks, but that doesn't mean we've been busy testing more materials!

A lot of people have asked for it, so we've now got a writeup on HEPA Filter DIY face masks!

Read more on HEPA filter DIY Masks here: https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/hepa-filters-make-diy-face-masks-covid-coronavirus/

If you haven't yet supported our open-data DIY mask test campaign, there's still 3 days left! Learn more here: https://fundly.com/best-diy-mask-materials

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Smart Air posted a new update:
almost 4 years ago

Update #2

First round of test data released!

If you've been following our social media, you'll know that our first round of data, with information on over 30 homemade face mask materials has been released!

Check out the full data here: https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-diy-coronavirus-homemade-mask-material-covid/

And finally, thank you to all you supporters, who have donated to support open-data and help fight COVID-19.

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Smart Air posted a new update:
almost 4 years ago

Update #1

We're putting the finishing touches to our 2nd round of tests on DIY face mask materials to fight Covid-19. Get ready for a big announcement and lots of new materials. Here's a sneak peek...

Also, big shout out to all those who've been sharing and supporting our fundraiser so far, you've helped make this open-data a reality!

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