2009

A monomer composition comprising at least one polymerizable alkyl ester α-cyanoacrylate monomer. Specifically, the α-cyanoacrylate monomer is an alkyl ester α-cyanoacrylate monomer of the general formula having a spacer R1:

Single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are coated with polyvinylpyrrolidone-iodine (povi- done-iodine or PVPI) in water. This solution of SWCNT and PVPI is deposited as a composite film, composed of individual and bundled SWCNTs with a PVPI coating. This material acts as a conductive nanotextured bandage with high flexibility and self contained slow-release antiseptic iodine. Antibacterial properties were tested on Escherichia coli, showing high effi- cacy over 48 h. Four-probe resistance tests showed a sheet resistance of approximately 10 kX/h.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC) Technology Testing and Evaluation Program (TTEP) helps to protect human health and the environment from adverse impacts of terrorist acts by carrying out performance tests on homeland security technologies. TTEP recently evaluated the performance of liquid and foam decontamination technologies under vendor-specified application conditions to decontaminate test coupons prepared from the materials listed below.