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Nanostructured Metal Oxides for Stoichiometric Degradation of Chemical Warfare Agents

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 236

Part of the book series: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology ((RECT,volume 236))

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Metal oxides have very important applications in many areas of chemistry, physics and materials science; their properties are dependent on the method of preparation, the morphology and texture. Nanostructured metal oxides can exhibit unique characteristics unlike those of the bulk form depending on their morphology, with a high density of edges, corners and defect surfaces. In recent years, methods have been developed for the preparation of metal oxide powders with tunable control of the primary particle size as well as of a secondary particle size: the size of agglomerates of crystallites. One of the many ways to take advantage of unique properties of nanostructured oxide materials is stoichiometric degradation of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) pollutants on their surfaces.

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This work was supported by RVO 61388980 and the Czech Science Foundation (Project No. P106/12/1116).

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  1. Material Chemistry Department, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry AS CR v.v.i., 250 68, Řež, Czech Republic

    Václav Štengl & Jiří Henych

  2. Faculty of the Environment, University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Králova Výšina 7, 400 96, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

    Pavel Janoš

  3. Military Institute, VeslaŘská 230, 637 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Skoumal

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Štengl, V., Henych, J., Janoš, P., Skoumal, M. (2016). Nanostructured Metal Oxides for Stoichiometric Degradation of Chemical Warfare Agents. In: de Voogt, P. (eds) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 236. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20013-2_4

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