Engineered Beads for Chem-Bio Defense (CBD) Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Research and Development (R and D) Project Summary

Abstract

During this Phase I, Tetramer demonstrated the ability to controllably produce and scale up polymer/MOFcomposite microbeads with an ultra-high (>80 wt%) loading of UiO-66-NH2 MOF powders for PersonnelProtective Equipment (PPE) applications (Figure 1). The MOF-beads produced by Tetramer during thisPhase I effort were demonstrated to have exceptional decontamination capabilities when exposed to soman(GD) reagents at the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. Under the test conditions used,Tetramers beads were significantly more effective at decomposing GD into pinacolyl methylphosphonicacid than the MOF powder by itself.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 12, 2021
Accession Number
AD1138109

Entities

People

  • Stephen Hudson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Properties
  • Data Rights
  • Decontamination
  • Environment
  • Environmental Health
  • Hazardous Materials
  • High Density
  • Materials
  • Military Personnel
  • Monomolecular Films
  • Particle Size
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Protective Equipment
  • Safety Factor
  • Tetramers
  • Thermal Stability

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Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology