{"id":128772,"date":"2021-10-09T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T18:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-rare-feat-material-protects-against-both-biological-and-chemical-threats"},"modified":"2021-10-09T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T18:22:18","slug":"a-rare-feat-material-protects-against-both-biological-and-chemical-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-rare-feat-material-protects-against-both-biological-and-chemical-threats","title":{"rendered":"A rare feat: Material protects against both biological and chemical threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-rare-feat-material-protects-against-both-biological-and-chemical-threats.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Northwestern University research team has developed a versatile composite fabric that can deactivate both biological threats, such as the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and chemical threats, such as those used in chemical warfare. A material that is effective against both classes of threats is rare.<\/p>\n<p>The material also is reusable. It can be restored to its original state after the fabric has been exposed to threats by a simple bleach treatment. The promising fabric could be used in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/face+masks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">face masks<\/a> and other protective clothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a bifunctional material that has the ability to deactivate both <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical<\/a> and biological toxic agents is crucial since the complexity to integrate multiple materials to do the job is high,\u201d said Northwestern\u2019s Omar Farha, an expert in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/metal-organic+frameworks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metal-organic frameworks<\/a>, or MOFs, which is the basis for the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Northwestern University research team has developed a versatile composite fabric that can deactivate both biological threats, such as the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and chemical threats, such as those used in chemical warfare. A material that is effective against both classes of threats is rare. The material also is reusable. It can be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}