The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a serious biosafety event that is causing a severe impact on the global society and economy. Thus, the importance of biosafety is once again being valued worldwide. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, most national governments have been encouraged to speed up the development of biosafety, which places higher requirements on researchers in biosafety and relevant fields. Many problems have been exposed due to the outbreak of COVID-19, including unavailability of effective drugs and vaccines, difficulty in fast or real-time virus detection, insufficient protective equipment, and shortage of transportation equipment for infected patients. To a certain extent, these biosafety problems are partly due to the limited biosafety-related research in materials science. Currently, the tremendous research efforts in materials science around the world have provided a wide variety of materials with peculiar properties to solve biosafety problems. This review attempts to give a perspective on how the development of novel materials can help scientists tackle the challenges in biosafety. Considering the importance of materials science in the biosafety field, it is urgent for us to officially propose the brand new concept of “biosafety materials”, which can be a future scientific discipline that utilizes materials science and theory simultaneously to produce materials, related products, and equipment to solve biosafety problems. Herein, we have aimed to draw worldwide attention on the new discipline of biosafety materials and the active cooperation between materials scientists and biosafety-related scientists to propel its development.

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生物安全材料：COVID-19爆发以来材料科学的新兴新兴研究方向

2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行是一项严重的生物安全事件，对全球社会和经济造成严重影响。因此，生物安全的重要性再次在全世界得到重视。由于COVID-19的爆发，大多数国家的政府受到鼓励，以加快生物安全的发展，这对生物安全和相关领域的研究人员提出了更高的要求。由于COVID-19的爆发，已经暴露出许多问题，包括无法获得有效的药物和疫苗，难以快速或实时地进行病毒检测，防护设备不足以及感染患者的运输设备不足。在一定程度上，这些生物安全问题部分是由于材料科学中与生物安全相关的研究有限。目前，全球材料科学领域的巨大研究努力为解决生物安全问题提供了多种具有独特性能的材料。本文旨在就新型材料的开发如何帮助科学家应对生物安全挑战提出一个观点。考虑到材料科学在生物安全领域的重要性，我们迫切需要正式提出“生物安全材料”的全新概念，它可以成为一门未来的学科，同时利用材料科学和理论来生产材料，相关产品，和解决生物安全问题的设备。在这里