Individual protection mask with improved filtering properties: 3D printed solution guided by design materials selection

Authors

  • Andreia Salvan Pagnan Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais- UEMG
  • Caroline Salvan Pagnan Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais- UEMG
  • Eliane Ayres
  • Marco Aurélio Silva Fernandes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2020.133.11

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has mobilized most countries to investigate multiple virus mitigation interventions, the face protection masks are among the main ones. Filtration and breathability are important factors in the applied materials choice. Design plays a fundamental innovative role in developing new products and materials that meet this emergency demand. 3D printing allows adjustments from an industrial production to answer an increasingly specific demand. This process allows the printing of a poly (lactic acid) (PLA) filter mesh with Tourmaline (TM) for a mask made in a triple layer with cotton fabric. One of the properties of TM is the negative ions emission, which allows capturing particles dispersed in the air. PLA is a bio-based and biodegradable polymer, with the corn as it’s most effective source. It makes it a good choice for the project, aiming to be aligned to environmental issues. In addition, the cotton application and the modeling directed to the  domestic sewing use make the project accessible to the population, adaptied to digital and personal manufacturing and aligned to the Maker Movement.

Author Biography

Andreia Salvan Pagnan, Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais- UEMG

PhD Design student in at the Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais - UEMG, in the research line of Technology, materials and ergonomics, with research title: Users' perception of textiles modified with tourmaline. Master in Design by the same university with a line of research in quartz processing techniques to be applied in jewelry design. Post-graduated in Gem and Jewelry Design at the Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (2011). Graduated in Fashion Design and Business at Centro Integrado de Moda in  (2008), area in which she taught in the disciplines of Design Methodology of Design, and Undergraduate Project Orientation. Graduated in Dentistry from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (1996). She works as a professor-researcher at the Center for Studies in Gem and Jewelry Design - CEDGEM / UEMG. Teaches disciplines on materials applied to jewelery both in the Product Design graduation course and in the Postgraduate Course in Design in Gems and Jewels, both from UEMG.

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Published

2020-12-23

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 3 (2020): Sep/Dec

Section

Specific design responses to the on-going crisis

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