Authors: Bruce Salter Jeffery Owens Ryan Hayn Rashelle McDonald Eileen Shannon
Publish Date: 2009/04/01
Volume: 44, Issue: 8, Pages: 2069-2078
Abstract
Recent interest in the treatment of textiles for chemical and biological agent defense has led to the creation of materials that contain Nchloramide moieties These materials have demonstrated efficacy against weaponizable bacteria mustard and VX as well as possessing antimicrobial properties against nuisance organisms that cause conditions such as athlete’s foot or molds Here Nchloramides have been attached to Nomex® intended for use as selfdecontaminating regenerable military textiles The materials were assayed for content of active oxidizing agent and tested for efficacy against 2chloroethyl ethyl sulfide and DemetonS simulants for mustard and VX respectively The decomposition products for each reaction were identified as well as reaction pathways to form each byproduct as correlated to analogous products of mustard and VX Furthermore the rate constant for the neutralization of each simulant on the reactive material was calculated from data collected by GCMS and ATRFTIR realtime studiesThe authors would like to thank Bob Nichols for his design and construction of the permeation test cell Patrick Sullivan for his assistance in developing the temperature and RH control system Brenton Stone for development of LabVIEW® control software Joe Wander for technical advice Warwick Mills for providing Nomex® textiles the Army Natick Soldier RDE Center and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency DTRA for funding this project
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