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Metal oxide nanoparticles for the decontamination of toxic chemical and biological compounds

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For several years, the international context is deeply affected by the use of chemical and biological weapons. The use of CBRN (Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear) threat agents from military stockpiles or biological civilian industry demonstrate the critical need to improve capabilities of decontamination for civilians and military. Physical decontamination systems that operate only by adsorption and displacement such as Fuller's Earth, have the drawback of not neutralizing hazardous agents, giving place to cross contaminations. Consequently, the development of a formulation based on metal oxide nanoparticles attracts considerable interest, since they offer physicochemical properties that allow them to both adsorb and degrade toxic compounds. Thus, the aim of this study is to found metal oxide nanoparticles with a versatile activity on both chemical and biological toxic agents. Therefore, several metal oxides such as MgO, TiO 2 , CeO 2 , ZnO and ZrO 2 were characterized and their 5-hours decontamination kinetics of less-toxic surrogate of VX, paraoxon, were studied in vitro. To determine the antimicrobial activity of these nanoparticles, simulants of biological terrorist threat were used by performing a 3-hours decontamination kinetics. This proof-of-concept study showed that MgO is the only one that exhibits both chemical and antibacterial actions but without sporicidal activity.
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hal-03000226 , version 1 (16-11-2020)

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Elodie Denet, Maria Betzabeth Espina-Benitez, Isabelle Pitault, Thierry Pollet, Didier Blaha, et al.. Metal oxide nanoparticles for the decontamination of toxic chemical and biological compounds. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2020, 583, pp.119373. ⟨10.1016/j.ijpharm.2020.119373⟩. ⟨hal-03000226⟩
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