Mandi: Premier Engineering institution IIT Mandi has developed High-Efficiency Face Masks from the saste ‘PET Bottles.’
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Dr. Sumit Sinha Ray, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, IIT Mandi, along with his research scholars has developed an indigenous technology for manufacturing high-efficiency face masks from waste ‘PET bottles’.
The researchers achieved this by using waste plastic bottles to develop a single thin layer of nano-nonwoven membrane that provides desirable particle filtration efficiency, at par with N95 respirator and a medical mask.
The product has been developed and tested in the Multiscale Fabrication and Nanotechnology Laboratory at IIT Mandi.