Inorganic oxides decontamination

Fabrication needs also include the ability to combine organic and inorganic nanoparticles into hybrid materials. For example, organic clathrates, binders, and basket-shaped molecules - such as block copolymers and triblock polymers - may be combined with inorganic oxides, polyoxometaUates, and chemically aggressive porous materials to form useful hybrids. This is important in the development of countermeasures that can select, detect, and decontaminate a wide range of toxic materials. 

Inorganic oxides are currently being considered as reactive sorbents for the decontaminantion of chemical warfare agents (CWA). These versatile materials, well-known for their industrial uses as adsorbents, catalysts and catalyst supports, have many potential decontamination applications such as environmentally-friendly hasty decontamination on the battlefield, protective filtration systems for vehicles, aircraft and buildings, and the demilitarization of CWA munitions and stockpiles. To stress the enormity of the latter problem, the US and Russia have declared CWA stoclqriles of 25,000 and 42,000 tons, respectively." ... 

The electrochemical oxidation of an organic pollutant can occur by direct electron transfer to the anode, indirect electron transfer mediated by hydroxyl radicals ( OH) or other species electrogenerated from inorganic salts. In the direct electrochemical oxidation, which yields very poor decontamination, the organic... 

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