| Abstract Scope |
The US Army and Joint Services remain in need of revolutionary materials to better enable and protect our Nation’s Warfighters. At the forefront of these are the family of low dimensional materials, from carbon nanotubes, to graphene, to MXenes, and just recently 1D titania. This presentation will focus on the latter two; MXenes and 1D titania. Working with the Barsoum group, along with Worcester Polytechnic Institute, we have pursued the use of these materials for chemical warfare agent defense. Specifically, we have used MXenes in chemresistive chemical agent simulant detection, chemically modifying the MXenes to render them highly specific to organophosphonates. Also, we have used both MXenes and 1D titania as chemical agent diffusion barriers within elastomer matrices, with the goal of developing better chemical agent resist gloves. Lastly, we will focus on potential new applications of 1D titania as photocatalysts for chemical agent degradation. |