{"id":79151,"date":"2020-09-30T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/scientists-synthesise-a-material-capable-of-degrading-nerve-agents-in-water\/"},"modified":"2020-09-30T19:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:55:42","slug":"scientists-synthesise-a-material-capable-of-degrading-nerve-agents-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/scientists-synthesise-a-material-capable-of-degrading-nerve-agents-in-water\/","title":{"rendered":"#Scientists synthesise a material capable of degrading nerve agents in water"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A team from the Institute of Molecular Science<\/a> (ICMol) of the University of Valencia has succeeded in synthesizing a new porous material that enables and guides the degradation of compounds analogous to nerve agents used in chemical warfare. This material will make it possible to capture and degrade this type of compounds that until now could not be eliminated. The work has been published in magazine Chem<\/i>.<\/p>\n


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Nerve agents are highly toxic chemicals that poison the body’s central nervous system and prevent it from working properly. They act quickly and their effects range from dizziness to death in the most extreme cases. An example of these agents is Sarin, a synthetic compound classified as a weapon of mass destruction and used in terrorist attacks such as the Tokyo subway in 1995 or, more recently, the 2013 Ghouta massacre in the framework of the Syrian War. Currently, the reference material to capture these gases is activated carbon, which allows them to be retained, but not eliminated.<\/p>\n

The ICMol team led by Carlos Mart\u00ed-Gastaldo, FuniMAT, works with porous materials called MOFs (Metal-Organic Frameworks) whose versatility makes it possible to create design materials by modifying their properties. In this way, they have succeeded in synthesizing a new family of highly efficient and chemically stable MOFs (MUV-101) that are capable of degrading a Sarin gas analogue in a way that is very similar to enzymes, the biological catalysts par excellence. “On a laboratory scale, we use nerve agent analogues to avoid the problems derived from their obvious toxicity. That is why we are working with foreign defense agencies to certify that this degradation can be extrapolated to Sarin gas itself,” explains Mart\u00ed-Gastaldo.<\/p>\n


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