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| | Textiles Having the Ability to Deliver Reactive Chemical Species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The target chemical activity chosen for this proposal is the inactivation of microorganisms, but the principles revealed should prove useful to other areas (catalysis, pollution abatement, etc). |
 | | The use of textile materials to support and dose active chemicals is not new, it is as old as the application of an ointment to a gauze for covering a wound. |
 | | Relatively safe chemical species which are known to be biocidal include alkyl surfactants of appropriate chain length, certain phosphorous compounds, certain quaternary ammonium compounds, phenols, oxidants (halamines, peroxides), and photooxidants (certain semiconductor oxides). |
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