Washington: Researchers led by an Indian-American scientist have developed a decontamination “wipe” to clean up toxic chemical warfare agents, as part of a study to develop a system to counter biological terror attacks. The programme is funded by the U.S. Department of Defence.
Seshadri Ramkumar, along with others at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University, has come out with it at a time when a congressionally mandated study has warned of a chemical-biological attack in the world in the next five years.
An evaluation of the non-woven dry wipe product Fibertec was performed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory using mustard gas and other toxic chemicals.
Professor Ramkumar supervises the Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory at Texas Tech. He and other scientists have worked to create a product that will be an asset to military and homeland security efforts in the post-9/11 environment.
Researchers found that the product out-performed 30 de-contamination materials.
“The material is flexible, does not contain loose particles and is capable of cleaning intricate parts of everything from the human body to the control panel of a fighter jet” Prof. Ramkumar said. — PTI
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