Peter Tsai
Taiwanese American material scientist and inventor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peter Tsai (蔡秉燚; born February 6, 1952) is a Taiwanese-American inventor and material scientist who is best known for inventing and patenting improved meltblown filtration techniques, used in respirators like N95 masks.[1][2][3] He is an expert in the field of nonwoven fabric.[4] Tsai was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee, but ended his retirement during the COVID-19 pandemic to research N95 mask sterilization.[5][6]