Comparison of the effectiveness of textiles containing metal nanoparticle and metal-organic frameworks for protection against ultraviolet radiation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract

The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of coated textiles with metal nanoparticles (NPs) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in the area of UVR protection via a systematic review and meta-analysis. For this purpose, four international electronic databases including PubMed, Scopus, ISI/Web of Science, and Google Scholar have been searched in 2021. All the analyses were done by STATA version 12 software. In general, NPs has Odd ratio of 7.32 (confidence interval 95% (CI 95%) 6.62 to 8.10) and the MOFs has an Odd ratio of 7.90 (CI 95%: 5.72 to 10.90). The results of correlation between metal NPs and MOFs showed that there was no statistically significant difference between them (Z = 0.111, p = 0.456). This result can be attributed to the difference between the number of studies conducted between metal NPs and MOFs.

Keywords:

• UV protection
• metal organic frameworks
• metal nanoparticles
• systematic review
• meta-analysis
• textile

Acknowledgements

This study is related to the project NO. IR.SBMU.RETECH.REC.1400.805 from Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. We also appreciate the ‘Student Research Committee’ and ‘Research & Technology Chancellor’ in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences for their financial support of this study.

Disclosure statement

The Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.