CPC A61L 2/18 (2013.01) [A61L 2/0076 (2013.01); A61L 2/20 (2013.01); A41D 13/11 (2013.01); A41D 13/1192 (2013.01); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/15 (2013.01); A61L 2202/16 (2013.01)] | 9 Claims |
1. An article, comprising:
a substrate that is arranged as one or more of a mask or a face covering; and
a photosensitizer formulation disposed on, or disposed in, the substrate along one or more dimensions of the substrate, wherein activation of the photosensitizer formulation, by radiation with one or more ultrasound wavelengths, generates microbicidal singlet oxygen in the presence of molecular oxygen that is configured to cause damage to one or more microbes to produce one or more immunogenic particles for inhalation by a user of the one or more of the mask or the face covering, wherein the radiation of the one or more ultrasound wavelengths is arranged to propel molecules of microbial singlet oxygen.
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