I am bug and mosquito magnet. They seek me out with a vengeance any time they can. making it hard to stay outdoors as much as I would like. Strong repellents applied to my skin do work but it is not a good solution. It is good to read that a better alternative may be possible some day
First, the ultra-thin material creates a physical barrier that the proboscis—the appendage mosquitoes use to acquire their "blood meal," as the researchers put it—can't puncture. More surprisingly, their experiments also showed that graphene might be responsible for blocking the chemical signals mosquitoes use to sense where their next meal is in the first place, essentially acting like a kind of "force field" against the pesky, disease-carrying insects.
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