REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

www.mod.gov.rs

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Material Resources Sector

Defensive Technologies Department

Military Technical Institute

www.vti.mod.gov.rs

DECOMPOSITION OF ORGANIC DYES AND CWA SIMULANTS BY NANO TiO₂-TREATED STANDARD MILITARY TEXTILES

Sonja Bauk

Military Technical Institute, Belgrade, bauk.sonja@gmail.com

Maja D. Vitorović-Todorović

Military Technical Institute, Belgrade, majavitod@gmail.com

Karel Mazanec

VOP-026, Šternberk, VTUO unit Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, mazanec@vtuo.cz

Željko Senić

Military Technical Institute, Belgrade, zsenic01@gmail.com

Nataša Pajić

Military Technical Institute, Belgrade, natasa.pajic@eunet.rs

Dušan Rajić

Inovation Center, Faculty of Technolgy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, rajic.dusan1@gmail.com

Abstract: The world-wide use of pesticides together with the possibility of chemical warfare agent’s usage in military actions, terrorist attacks or in accidents, increased the risks of chemical contamination occurrence and consequently stipulated the need for the development of new protective materials and equipment with improved properties. Because of that, today in the world, research are directed toward design of the so-called “smart textiles”, which are capable of “self-decontamination”, i.e. decomposition of toxic chemicals. Therefore, we investigated different methods for the synthesis of TiO₂ nanoparticles and their deposition on standard military textiles (cotton/polyester 50%). Photocatalytic activity of such obtained textiles was tested by degradation of organic dyes and chemical warfare agent simulants

Key words: nano-TiO₂, chemical warfare agents, protective materials, photocatalysis.