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🧪 Solutions 108 | Antiviral Fabric: From Less-Smelly Socks to Life-Saving Masks

🧪 Solutions 108 | Antiviral Fabric: From Less-Smelly Socks to Life-Saving Masks

Update: 2021-08-26

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A team of researchers making workout gear that never stinks realized that their invention could actually have a bigger impact fighting a global pandemic. It all starts with a high-performance fabric found in your closet and a common mineral in your breakfast cereal.

Solutions is made with funding and featuring scientists from 3M, Ascend Performance Materials, Baker Hughes, BASF, Dow, DuPont, Procter & Gamble, PPG, Royal DSM, SABIC, Solvay, and W. L. Gore & Associates, none of whom influenced any editorial decisions.

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🧪 Solutions 108 | Antiviral Fabric: From Less-Smelly Socks to Life-Saving Masks

🧪 Solutions 108 | Antiviral Fabric: From Less-Smelly Socks to Life-Saving Masks