{"id":9426,"date":"2020-08-28T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"biology-professor-alex-wong-works-on-reusable-face-masks-during-covid-19-with-ultraviolet-light-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2020\/biology-professor-alex-wong-works-on-reusable-face-masks-during-covid-19-with-ultraviolet-light-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Professor Alex Wong Works on Reusable Face Masks During COVID-19 with Ultraviolet Light Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biology Professor Alex Wong Works on Reusable Face Masks During COVID-19 with Ultraviolet Light Technology\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Biology Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/alex-wong\/\">Alex Wong<\/a>, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eme\/\">Experimental Molecular Evaluation<\/a> lab, is working on a unique research initiative to decontaminate medical face masks. Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/alex-wong\/\">Wong<\/a>, combines ultraviolet light technology on masks that have been exposed to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/alex-wong\/\">Wong<\/a>, came up with this idea when there was a substantial concern over Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;\u201cArkalumen was interested in developing ultraviolet LED for decontaminations and CHEO was interested in doing UV decontamination of masks . . . It sort of clicked together,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/alex-wong\/\">Wong<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/reusable-face-masks-covid-19\/?utm_source=Homepage&amp;utm_medium=Banner\">Read full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biology Professor Alex Wong, from the Experimental Molecular Evaluation lab, is working on a unique research initiative to decontaminate medical face masks. Professor Wong, combines ultraviolet light technology on masks that have been exposed to COVID-19. Professor Wong, came up with this idea when there was a substantial concern over Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9427,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}