{"doi":"10.1002/adfm.202103477","title":"A Broad‐Spectrum Antimicrobial and Antiviral Membrane Inactivates SARS‐CoV‐2 in Minutes","abstract":"SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, can remain viable and infectious on surfaces for days, posing a potential risk for fomite transmission. Liquid-based disinfectants, such as chlorine-based ones, have played an indispensable role in decontaminating surfaces but they do not provide prolonged protection from recontamination. Here a safe, inexpensive, and scalable membrane with covalently immobilized chlorine, large surface area, and fast wetting that exhibits long-lasting, exceptional killing efficacy against a broad spectrum of bacteria and viruses is reported. The membrane achieves a more than 6 log reduction within several minutes against all five bacterial strains tested, including gram-positive, gram-negative, and drug-resistant ones as well as a clinical bacterial cocktail. The membrane also efficiently deactivated nonenveloped and enveloped viruses in minutes. In particular, a 5.17 log reduction is achieved against SARS-CoV-2 after only 10 min of contact with the membrane. This membrane may be used on high-touch surfaces in healthcare and other public facilities or in air filters and personal protective equipment to provide continuous protection and minimize transmission risks.","journal":"Advanced Functional Materials","year":2021,"id":170259,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":28,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9484,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":389934,"name":"Yidan Zhang","orcid":"0000-0001-6691-5244","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":244813,"name":"Wanjun Liu","orcid":"0000-0001-6472-6247","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":244812,"name":"Long‐Hai Wang","orcid":"0000-0002-6529-7031","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":702432,"name":"Young Wook Choi","orcid":"0000-0001-6659-3855","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":703020,"name":"Megan Fulton","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":257888,"name":"Stephanie Fuchs","orcid":"0000-0001-9264-3094","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":244814,"name":"Kaavian Shariati","orcid":"0000-0002-0453-4275","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":702433,"name":"Mingyu Qiao","orcid":"0000-0002-7271-899X","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":703021,"name":"Victorien Bernat","orcid":null,"position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":244819,"name":"Minglin Ma","orcid":"0000-0002-9553-7526","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":257890,"name":"Qingsheng Liu","orcid":"0000-0003-2721-4618","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":42,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:46:19.728805Z","pmid":"34512227","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}