Personnel protective fabric technologies for chemical countermeasures

Advances in Biological and Chemical Terrorism Countermeasures

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 203-227

  Ramkumar, Seshadri S ^a   Sata, Utkarsh ^a   Hussain, Munim ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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