The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has aroused tremendous attention toward personal protective equipment (PPE) in both scientific research and industrial manufacture. Despite decades of development in PPE design and fabrication, there's still much room for further optimization, in terms, of both protection performance and wear comfort. Interdisciplinary efforts have been devoted to this research field in recent years. Significantly, the innovation of materials, which brings about improved performance and versatile new functions for PPEs, has been widely adopted in PPE design. In this minireview, recent progress in the development of novel materials and structural designs for PPE application are presented in detail with the introduction of various material-based strategies for different PPE types, as well as the examples, which apply auxiliary components into face masks to enrich the functionalities and improve the personal feelings in the pandemic period.

Covid-19大流行的爆发引起了科学研究和工业制造中对个人防护设备（PPE）的极大关注。尽管个人防护装备的设计和制造经历了数十年的发展，但在防护性能和佩戴舒适度方面仍有很大的优化空间。近年来，跨学科的努力一直致力于这一研究领域。值得注意的是，材料的创新为PPE带来了性能的提升和多功能的新功能，已被广泛应用于PPE设计中。在这篇迷你评论中，通过介绍针对不同 PPE 类型的各种基于材料的策略以及示例，详细介绍了 PPE 应用的新型材料和结构设计开发的最新进展，