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Recent Advances of Electrospinning and Multifunctional Electrospun Textile Materials for Chemical and Biological Protection

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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Security and Protection against CBRN Threats

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The primary task of protective clothing is to maximize the user’s survival, sustainability and effectiveness against cold, heat, fire, ballistic, biological, radiological, nuclear and chemical agents. The protective textiles made of many different fabric materials have been widely used to provide effective protection for various specific applications. With the recent and ongoing advancements in nanotechnology, it is desirable that protective textiles have multifunctional properties. Thus, the newly developed composite materials gained various features such as flame retardancy, UV protection, pollutant capturing, antibacterial property, decontamination, detoxification and self-cleaning ability as well as providing wearing comfort. These properties can be achieved by incorporating functional agents (specific functional ligands or molecules, nanoparticles and drugs) into fabricated materials. Therefore, a new generation of protective fabrics has been produced in recent years. Electrospun textile materials are suitable for use as new protective clothing due to their easy production method, breathable, lightweight, comfortable and functionalizable properties. The electrospun membranes can be fabricated with diverse morphologies (core-shell, side-by-side, multilayer, hollow interior and with high porosity) by regulating the operating conditions and modifying the needle device. Electrospun nanofibers can be used in various application areas including filtration, sensing, wastewater treatment, biomedicine and protective textiles due to their extraordinary physicochemical features at nano level. This chapter aims to review recent advances of the electrospinning technique and the use of multi-functional electrospun materials for protection against chemical and biological agents.

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  1. Engineering Faculty, Chemical Engineering Department, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey

    Didem Demir & Nimet Bölgen

  2. International Clean Water Institute, Manassas, VA, USA

    Ashok Vaseashta

  3. NJCU – State University of New Jersey, New Jersey, NJ, USA

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  2. Université Ibn-Tofail, Kénitra, Morocco

    Mohammed Essaid Achour

  3. Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

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Demir, D., Vaseashta, A., Bölgen, N. (2020). Recent Advances of Electrospinning and Multifunctional Electrospun Textile Materials for Chemical and Biological Protection. In: Petkov, P., Achour, M., Popov, C. (eds) Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Security and Protection against CBRN Threats. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2018-0_22

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