https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-05582-5
Review
Catalysis and decontamination: a versatile tool in the safe and sustainable degradation of chemical warfare agents
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CNR – Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “Giulio Natta”, via C. Golgi 19, 20133, Milano, Italy
2
Dip. Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via C. Golgi 19, 20133, Milano, Italy
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Dip. Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, viale T. Michel 11, 15121, Alessandria, Italy
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matteo.guidotti@scitec.cnr.it
Received:
18
February
2024
Accepted:
22
August
2024
Published online:
2
September
2024
Decontamination is a critical and enabling capability to mitigate and, in the best cases, neutralize the threat of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) to human health and the environment. Well-established conventional decontamination methods will be described and compared to more recent approaches based on catalytic degradation, in the presence of nanostructured catalysts or enzymatic systems, photochemical and photocatalytic abatement and active adsorption on high-performance innovative porous solid materials.
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