Detoxification of Chemical Warfare Agents

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Detoxification of Chemical Warfare Agents is written by Dimitrios A. Giannakoudakis and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319707604 (ISBN 10) and 9783319707600 (ISBN 13).

This book presents a detailed history of chemical warfare development during the First World War and discusses design approaches to gas masks and the performance of new filter materials that decontaminate chemical warfare agents (CWA) when applied in the vapor phase. It describes multifunctional nanocomposites containing zinc and zirconium (hydr)oxides, graphite oxide and silver or gold nanoparticles as reactive adsorbents for the degradation of the CWAs vapors. In addition it examines in detail the surface properties that are most important in the mineralization performance.