[Flick Lives]

Combine two fabrics.

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Now if you can get the electrostatic charge up to +/- 10 kV (10,000 volts). Then you might have something.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26790816_Airborne_Virus_Capture_and_Inactivation_by_an_Electrostatic_Particle_Collector

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

You just keep digging yourself deeper.

It seems you’re trying to compare an electrostatic precipitator type of air purifier with a face mask (I wasn’t about to pay for the full article, just to confirm that). The key difference is the gaps (plate separation) — over 3,000 nm vs ~ 30 nm for masks. Electrostatic forces are subject to the inverse-square law. If 10,000 volts are required for a 1/8” gap (> 3,000 nm), then, just over 10 volts would be required in a cloth mask.

I paid attention in some of my college physics classes.