A rare feat: Material protects against both biological and chemical threats:
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 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 face masks and other protective clothing.
"Having a bifunctional material that has the ability to deactivate both chemical and biological toxic agents is crucial since the complexity to integrate multiple materials to do the job is high," said Northwestern's Omar Farha, an expert in metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs[*], which is the basis for the technology.
[...] The MOF/fiber composite builds on an earlier study in which Farha's team created a nanomaterial that deactivates toxic nerve agents. With some small manipulations, the researchers were able to also incorporate antiviral and antibacterial agents into the material.
MOFs are "sophisticated bath sponges," Farha said. The nano-sized materials are designed with a lot of holes that can capture gases, vapors and other agents the way a sponge captures water. In the new composite fabric, the cavities of the MOFs have catalysts that can deactivate toxic chemicals, viruses and bacteria. The porous nanomaterial can be easily coated on textile fibers.
[*] MOF: Wikipedia
Journal Reference:
Yuk Ha Cheung, Kaikai Ma, Hans C. van Leeuwen, et al. Immobilized Regenerable Active Chlorine within a Zirconium-Based MOF Textile Composite to Eliminate Biological and Chemical Threats, Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c08576)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Username on Tuesday October 12 2021, @07:41AM (2 children)
How well does this chlorine provide protection against chlorine gas?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @08:19AM
It looks like they only tested it against two chemical agents.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday October 12 2021, @04:05PM
They say "bleach treatment". Chlorine or chlorine sulfide is only one bleaching agent. Hydrogen peroxide is probably the most used one for fabrics.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/0471238961.1921182206011818.a01.pub2 [wiley.com]
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @08:59AM (2 children)
I remember a few of these miraculous materials and in many cases there were some problems with them. So here it may be for example decay to some components being not so friendly to organism.
An interesting example: Some time ago I was replacing an exhaust pipe from a gas water heater. I remember that in place in which it went to the wall, it was sealed by the bar of specific mineral cloth which prevented carbon monoxide from leaking if there was some problem with chimney. It was called... chryzotil? something like this, I don't know its English name. This thing has been used for 50 years or so, for this, for thermal isolation, for firemen suits, for keeping heaters from melting the floor if it was polymer, for lots of things. It was cheap as it was just dug from the ground. Now I was looking everywhere for it and... there is no more of it because it was too powdery when cut and its powders were toxic. And today everything must be single-use so it started to be a problem in early 2000s.
So what you do now instead? You die of carbon monoxide poisoning. Great. Or you pay, and pay, and pay, for network of detectors, for monthly inspections, for bi-yearly camera inspections...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Swervin on Tuesday October 12 2021, @01:55PM (1 child)
Commonly known as "asbestos" in most English speaking countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysotile [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 12 2021, @02:17PM
The useful bit about "asbestos": (One of those things that causes cancer in more than just the State of California.)
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @01:41PM (2 children)
1.) What's the survival rate for COVID (minus co-morbidity factors/other medical issues present already in a person)?
ANSWER = roughly 99++% across ALL age groups (or close to it)
2.) WHY TAKE AN UNPROVEN SHOT that generates ALL THESE BAD CONDITIONS:
pericarditis
myocarditis
brain aneurisms
NERVOUS "twitch" disorders (sp? gillian barre etc.)
PARALYSIS
lung CLOTS
cancer
sterility
COVID RASH (huge blisters & "burnt" red skin that falls off etc.)
BASED ON FALSE POSITIVE RESULT GENERATING PCR TESTS per all the evidences I noted here on that note vs. your bs WHICH HELPED ME PROVE IT no less, lol https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45332&page=1&cid=1185265#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
(To which the CDC got rid of OLD TESTS (that did false positives due to cycling turned up too high to panic sheeple into taking a CLOT SHOT) & NOW "new tests" are out? No thanks!)
They don't KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING (or do & want to kill you)!
PCR test cycles TURNED UP TOO HIGH in cycling per Kary Mullis the NOBEL LAUREATE who was awarded the NOBEL PRIZE for that test (nobody knows it better than he - HE INVENTED IT) DID OCCUR & the fact "new tests" ARE out PROVES IT - but those that took the shot based on FALSE POSITIVE RESULTS I list above ARE IN DEEP SHIT (dead).
WHAT DOCUMENTARY really, Really, REALLY illustrates this? COVIDLAND https://www.brighteon.com/97ba444b-d3fd-4774-8bed-e9ceb3844fec [brighteon.com]
(Specifically w/ FAUCI saying "anything over 33 cycles is not worth doing it higher" - period!)
* AND, moreso when a PFizer scientist ADMITS natural immunity is better than taking the CLOTSHOTS (NDA he signed got him scared for it too, admitting it)
https://www.brighteon.com/2aa6d13f-e0bb-4fd7-8f7a-fb36df5e0b18 [brighteon.com]
Hmmm?
3.) E.G. All you have to REALLY "endure" is a flu like condition pretty much - e.g. My Mom's 84++ & SURVIVED IT!
* YOUR "CURE" IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE!
APK
P.S.=> Why fix something that's NOT BROKEN (your innate native immune system) - especially vs. something that DOES NOT KILL YOU in 99++% of cases minus ANY OTHER "co-morbidities"? Additionally given that - WHY THE "BIG PUSH" to PUSH (like drug dealers do & in this case, "LEGAL" drug dealers) to put a vax in you that does NOT WORK as advertised in the 1st place?? apk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @01:36PM
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-10-01-ai-powered-dod-data-analysis-program-project-salus-shows-ade-accelerating-fully-vaccinated.html [naturalnews.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @01:38PM
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=are%20members%20of%20congress%20required%20to%20vaccinate%3F [duckduckgo.com]
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @02:17PM (1 child)
1.) What's the survival rate for COVID (minus co-morbidity factors/other medical issues present already in a person)?
ANSWER = roughly 99++% across ALL age groups (or close to it)
2.) WHY TAKE AN UNPROVEN SHOT that generates ALL THESE BAD CONDITIONS:
pericarditis
myocarditis
brain aneurisms
NERVOUS "twitch" disorders (sp? gillian barre etc.)
PARALYSIS
lung CLOTS
cancer
sterility
COVID RASH (huge blisters & "burnt" red skin that falls off etc.)
BASED ON FALSE POSITIVE RESULT GENERATING PCR TESTS per all the evidences I noted here on that note vs. your bs WHICH HELPED ME PROVE IT no less, lol https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45332&page=1&cid=1185265#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
(To which the CDC got rid of OLD TESTS (that did false positives due to cycling turned up too high to panic sheeple into taking a CLOT SHOT) & NOW "new tests" are out? No thanks!)
They don't KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING (or do & want to kill you)!
PCR test cycles TURNED UP TOO HIGH in cycling per Kary Mullis the NOBEL LAUREATE who was awarded the NOBEL PRIZE for that test (nobody knows it better than he - HE INVENTED IT) DID OCCUR & the fact "new tests" ARE out PROVES IT - but those that took the shot based on FALSE POSITIVE RESULTS I list above ARE IN DEEP SHIT (dead).
WHAT DOCUMENTARY really, Really, REALLY illustrates this? COVIDLAND https://www.brighteon.com/97ba444b-d3fd-4774-8bed-e9ceb3844fec [brighteon.com]
(Specifically w/ FAUCI saying "anything over 33 cycles is not worth doing it higher" - period!)
* AND, moreso when a PFizer scientist ADMITS natural immunity is better than taking the CLOTSHOTS (NDA he signed got him scared for it too, admitting it)
https://www.brighteon.com/2aa6d13f-e0bb-4fd7-8f7a-fb36df5e0b18 [brighteon.com]
Hmmm?
In fact, what I just put up is only a FRACTION of what I could have in regards to PCR tests being invalid from TONS of reputable sources galore!
Then, the WHO changes the DEFINITION of "pandemic" from NUMBER OF DEATHS vs. NUMBER OF CASES (which "The Wayback Machine" still has evidence of) to make a herd stampede in panic (herd of stupid sheeple) due to false positives from a BOGUS "test" per above, that ROPED DOPES IN as said "panicked sheeple herd" to take a shot that f's you up!
3.) E.G. All you have to REALLY "endure" is a flu like condition pretty much - e.g. My Mom's 84++ & SURVIVED IT!
* YOUR "CURE" IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE!
APK
P.S.=> Why fix something that's NOT BROKEN (your innate native immune system) - especially vs. something that DOES NOT KILL YOU in 99++% of cases minus ANY OTHER "co-morbidities"? Additionally given that - WHY THE "BIG PUSH" to PUSH (like drug dealers do & in this case, "LEGAL" drug dealers) to put a vax in you that does NOT WORK as advertised in the 1st place?? apk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @04:13PM
Lunatic fringe
In the twilight's last gleaming
But this is open season
But you won't get too far
Cause you've got to blame someone
For your own confusion
- Tom Cochran, Lunatic Fringe
--
Who wants to take that long-shot gamble
And head out for Fire Lake?
- Bob Seeger, Fire Lake
--
Is this the prize
For having learned how not to cry?
- Jackson Brown, Doctor My Eyes
--
If you wanna feel real nice, just ask the rock and roll doctor's advice
- Lowell George, Rock and Roll Doctor
--
And when the brokenhearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
- Paul McCartney, Let It Be
--
When darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
- Paul Simon, Bridge Over Troubled Water
--
Oh, as long as I know how to love, I know I'm still alive
I've got all my life to live, and I've got all my love to give
- Gloria Gaynor, I Will Survive
--
It matters not, I've been told
Where the body lies when the heart grows cold
Yet grant, o grant, this wish to me
O bury me not on the lone prairie.
- Traditional
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @04:24PM
1.) What's the survival rate for COVID (minus co-morbidity factors/other medical issues present already in a person)?
ANSWER = roughly 99++% across ALL age groups (or close to it)
2.) WHY TAKE AN UNPROVEN SHOT that generates ALL THESE BAD CONDITIONS:
pericarditis
myocarditis
brain aneurisms
NERVOUS "twitch" disorders (sp? gillian barre etc.)
PARALYSIS
lung CLOTS
cancer
sterility
COVID RASH (huge blisters & "burnt" red skin that falls off etc.)
BASED ON FALSE POSITIVE RESULT GENERATING PCR TESTS per all the evidences I noted here on that note vs. your bs WHICH HELPED ME PROVE IT no less, lol https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45332&page=1&cid=1185265#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
(To which the CDC got rid of OLD TESTS (that did false positives due to cycling turned up too high to panic sheeple into taking a CLOT SHOT) & NOW "new tests" are out? No thanks!)
They don't KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING (or do & want to kill you)!
PCR test cycles TURNED UP TOO HIGH in cycling per Kary Mullis the NOBEL LAUREATE who was awarded the NOBEL PRIZE for that test (nobody knows it better than he - HE INVENTED IT) DID OCCUR & the fact "new tests" ARE out PROVES IT - but those that took the shot based on FALSE POSITIVE RESULTS I list above ARE IN DEEP SHIT (dead).
WHAT DOCUMENTARY really, Really, REALLY illustrates this? COVIDLAND https://www.brighteon.com/97ba444b-d3fd-4774-8bed-e9ceb3844fec [brighteon.com]
(Specifically w/ FAUCI saying "anything over 33 cycles is not worth doing it higher" - period!)
* AND, moreso when a PFizer scientist ADMITS natural immunity is better than taking the CLOTSHOTS (NDA he signed got him scared for it too, admitting it)
https://www.brighteon.com/2aa6d13f-e0bb-4fd7-8f7a-fb36df5e0b18 [brighteon.com]
Hmmm?
In fact, what I just put up is only a FRACTION of what I could have in regards to PCR tests being invalid from TONS of reputable sources galore!
Then, the WHO changes the DEFINITION of "pandemic" from NUMBER OF DEATHS vs. NUMBER OF CASES (which "The Wayback Machine" still has evidence of) to make a herd stampede in panic (herd of stupid sheeple) due to false positives from a BOGUS "test" per above, that ROPED DOPES IN as said "panicked sheeple herd" to take a shot that f's you up!
3.) E.G. All you have to REALLY "endure" is a flu like condition pretty much - e.g. My Mom's 84++ & SURVIVED IT!
* YOUR "CURE" IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE!
APK
P.S.=> Why fix something that's NOT BROKEN (your innate native immune system) - especially vs. something that DOES NOT KILL YOU in 99++% of cases minus ANY OTHER "co-morbidities"? Additionally given that - WHY THE "BIG PUSH" to PUSH (like drug dealers do & in this case, "LEGAL" drug dealers) to put a vax in you that does NOT WORK as advertised in the 1st place?? apk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @05:30PM
1.) What's the survival rate for COVID (minus co-morbidity factors/other medical issues present already in a person)?
ANSWER = roughly 99++% across ALL age groups (or close to it)
2.) WHY TAKE AN UNPROVEN SHOT that generates ALL THESE BAD CONDITIONS:
pericarditis
myocarditis
brain aneurisms
NERVOUS "twitch" disorders (sp? gillian barre etc.)
PARALYSIS
lung CLOTS
cancer
sterility
COVID RASH (huge blisters & "burnt" red skin that falls off etc.)
BASED ON FALSE POSITIVE RESULT GENERATING PCR TESTS per all the evidences I noted here on that note vs. your bs WHICH HELPED ME PROVE IT no less, lol https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=45332&page=1&cid=1185265#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
(To which the CDC got rid of OLD TESTS (that did false positives due to cycling turned up too high to panic sheeple into taking a CLOT SHOT) & NOW "new tests" are out? No thanks!)
They don't KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING (or do & want to kill you)!
PCR test cycles TURNED UP TOO HIGH in cycling per Kary Mullis the NOBEL LAUREATE who was awarded the NOBEL PRIZE for that test (nobody knows it better than he - HE INVENTED IT) DID OCCUR & the fact "new tests" ARE out PROVES IT - but those that took the shot based on FALSE POSITIVE RESULTS I list above ARE IN DEEP SHIT (dead).
WHAT DOCUMENTARY really, Really, REALLY illustrates this? COVIDLAND https://www.brighteon.com/97ba444b-d3fd-4774-8bed-e9ceb3844fec [brighteon.com]
(Specifically w/ FAUCI saying "anything over 33 cycles is not worth doing it higher" - period!)
* AND, moreso when a PFizer scientist ADMITS natural immunity is better than taking the CLOTSHOTS (NDA he signed got him scared for it too, admitting it)
https://www.brighteon.com/2aa6d13f-e0bb-4fd7-8f7a-fb36df5e0b18 [brighteon.com]
Hmmm?
In fact, what I just put up is only a FRACTION of what I could have in regards to PCR tests being invalid from TONS of reputable sources galore!
Then, the WHO changes the DEFINITION of "pandemic" from NUMBER OF DEATHS vs. NUMBER OF CASES (which "The Wayback Machine" still has evidence of) to make a herd stampede in panic (herd of stupid sheeple) due to false positives from a BOGUS "test" per above, that ROPED DOPES IN as said "panicked sheeple herd" to take a shot that f's you up!
3.) E.G. All you have to REALLY "endure" is a flu like condition pretty much - e.g. My Mom's 84++ & SURVIVED IT!
* YOUR "CURE" IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE!
APK
P.S.=> Why fix something that's NOT BROKEN (your innate native immune system) - especially vs. something that DOES NOT KILL YOU in 99++% of cases minus ANY OTHER "co-morbidities"? Additionally given that - WHY THE "BIG PUSH" to PUSH (like drug dealers do & in this case, "LEGAL" drug dealers) to put a vax in you that does NOT WORK as advertised in the 1st place?? apk
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @05:49PM
It keeps away Muslims, which protects you against all sorts of chemical and biological threats.