This review is sponsored by Molekule
Molekule, the innovative air purification company, has launched a new air purifier called the Molekule Air Mini+. It is the third air purifier developed by the company after the Molekule Air and Molekule Air Mini. Molekule’s patented Photo Electrochemical Oxidation (PECO) technology has revolutionized the clean air technology industry with its ability to destroy pollutants such as mold, bacteria, VOCs (volatile organic compounds), and viruses smaller than what standard HEPA filters test for.
Developed over 20 years of rigorous research, PECO technology has been validated by several third-party lab tests and offers a new and different approach to air purification. PECO technology has been independently and internally tested many times. More recently, a nationally recognized, third-party lab confirmed that Molekule’s PECO-Filtering technology destroys common VOCs in indoor air. These VOCs are common pollutants such as formaldehyde and toluene. Molekule believes in bringing cleaner indoor air to all, and the Air Mini+ offers more enhanced features and improvements in air purifying technology, once more pushing industry boundaries for cleaner air. In this Molekule review, we will compare the new Air Mini+ with other Molekule air purifiers and explore the importance of addressing indoor air quality concerns and attaining cleaner indoor air.
Molekule Air Mini
The Molekule Air Mini was created with smaller rooms in mind. Perfect for rooms of up to 250 square feet — such as children’s bedrooms, small studio apartments, and home offices — the Air Mini comes with whisper-quiet technology, 360-degree air intake design, and groundbreaking patented PECO technology, like all Molekule products. Priced at $399 and artfully designed, the Air Mini features a felt handle for easy transport throughout your home, allowing you to purify any room with ease.
While the original Molekule Air is best suited for larger rooms and features two filters — a Pre-Filter for trapping larger allergens such as pet dander and dust and a PECO-Filter for destroying microscopic pollutants such as VOCs — the Molekule Air Mini comes equipped with one integrated filter that combines the benefits of both filters in one. This integrated filter uses PECO technology that destroys allergens rather than just trapping them.
How the Revolutionary Molekule PECO Technology Works
Molekule’s innovative, patented PECO technology has reinvented the way we purify indoor air. Traditional air purifying methods use HEPA filters, a technology that has been around since the 1940s without much innovation since its development. Molekule’s PECO technology destroys pollutants at 0.1 nanometers on a microscopic scale. PECO-Filters utilize free radicals to destroy pollutants 1,000 times smaller than what HEPA standards test for. Additionally, because PECO-Filters destroy pollutants, there’s little risk of those pollutants being released back into the air.
Molekule air purifiers contain a low-energy UV-A light that shines on the surface of a nano-particle coated PECO-Filter. This initiates an oxidation reaction that produces free radicals that work to destroy pollutants on the surface of the filter as air passes through. This PECO filtration process doesn’t produce harmful byproducts like ozone and effectively reduces harmful VOCs and particle pollutants, leaving you with cleaner, fresher indoor air.
Introducing the Molekule Air Mini+
Like all of Molekule’s prior offerings, the Molekule Air Mini+ uses breakthrough PECO-Filtering technology to deliver cleaner air to your home or office. Like the Air Mini basic, the Air Mini+ is designed for rooms of up to 250 square feet. Both Mini models have the same dimensions (12 inches high, 8.26 inches in diameter, and 7 pounds). All Molekule air purifiers are app enabled, allowing you to configure your devices easily to fit your needs, right from your phone. (The Molekule app requires iOS 12.1 or later and Android 8.0 and up to run.) Priced at $499, the Air Mini+ also comes with new, enhanced features not found on prior Molekule models.
What’s New
Molekule Air Mini+ has a vegan leather handle for easy transport, a particulate matter sensor, and a new mode called Auto Protect Mode that enables automatic fan speeds to ensure the most efficient operation. Here’s how it works: The particle sensor detects how much particulate matter is in the air where the device is operating. This new sensor feature then works together with the new Auto Protect Mode. When this mode is enabled, the air purifier will automatically adjust its fan speed depending on the amount of particulate matter that it senses in the air. The fan speeds correlate with a colored light at the top of the Air Mini+ that indicates the level of particle concentrations in the air. This component is unique to the Molekule Air Mini+, allowing it to automatically reduce the amount of air pollutants and allergens in the air such as dust, pollen, while the PECO-filter continues to destroy VOCs, bacteria, mold, and viruses as efficiently as possible.
Molekule received customer feedback requesting sensor technology on Molekule air purifiers so that they may better understand the pollutants in their indoor air. Molekule listened, and in the company’s spirit of scientific innovation, passion for clean indoor air, and customer satisfaction, the particle matter sensor technology was incorporated into this latest release. This feature and the Auto Protect Mode were among the most requested features, according to Molekule.
Because all Molekule devices come equipped with PECO technology that destroys airborne pollutants, they are great to bundle for a whole-home, clean air solution. You can use the standard Molekule Air for rooms up to 600 square feet, such as living rooms and family areas, and use the Molekule Air Mini and Molekule Air Mini+ purifiers for smaller bedrooms and home offices. Molekule air purifiers work best when placed in a central location, elevated from the floor.
Molekule and Indoor Air Quality
Poor indoor air quality is a global health concern. According to the EPA, Americans spend about 90 percent of their time indoors, where pollutants can be concentrated two to five times higher than outdoors. Those most vulnerable to the negative effects of air pollution — like children, the elderly, and those with respiratory ailments — tend to spend more time indoors. An increased use of synthetic building materials and furnishings, personal care products, and household cleaners in recent years has led to an increase in indoor air pollution and VOCs.
Continued exposure to indoor air pollutants can cause adverse health effects, including eye, nose, and throat irritation; headaches; fatigue; and respiratory illness. Many indoor air pollutants such as dust mites, pet dander, mold, and other particulate matter can be asthma triggers, worsening symptoms for sufferers. Molekule hopes to give customers greater insight into their indoor air quality with the Air Mini+’s particle sensor and smart Auto Protect Mode that controls the unit’s fan speed for best air-filtering results.
Molekule’s mission is to provide access to clean indoor air for everyone, everywhere. For this reason, the company works with doctors and scientists to test and improve its patented PECO technology that has taken the air purifying industry by storm. No matter which device you choose, PECO technology-powered Molekule air purifiers may improve your indoor air quality.
