Swellable functional hypercrosslinked polymer networks for the uptake of chemical warfare agents

Swellable functional hypercrosslinked polymer networks for the uptake of chemical warfare agents†

The need for porous materials to function as sorbents in order to allow for bulk uptake (and potential deactivation) of chemical warfare agent (CWA) stockpiles is of significant importance in the world today. Hypercrosslinked polymers (HCPs) represent a class of such sorbents being produced using the facile and tuneable so-called “knitting” procedure. Several HCPs are reported and their propert...

Development of Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Sensors for Chemical Warfare Agents

o protect personnel from hazardous materials, substances must be unambiguously detected in real time. This goal is being pursued with the application of a wide range of technologies. Most chemical sensors must strike a compromise between sensitivity and selectivity to meet the real-time goal. The sensor platform described in this article is designed to eliminate any such compromise. Thus far, w...

Chemical Warfare Agents

Anesthesia for Casualties of Chemical Warfare Agents

Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents

While chemical warfare agents have been used in military conflict for decades, it is only in the last two decades that increased attention has been paid to the acute and chronic health effects associated with exposure to these agents. The subsequent reports of ill-defined illnesses in the veterans of the Gulf War of 1991, followed by the 1995 sarin terrorist attack in the Japanese subway system...