PROTECT

The project “PROTECT” aims at the holistic development of personal shielding media, aiming at modifying the existing anti-ballistic fiber plaques as well as at the production of innovative anti-ballistic textile fabrics made from modified composite fabrics of regenerated cellulose/aramid. To modify the anti-ballistic plaques, new hybrid nanomaterials consisting of innovative, specially designed organic molecules that will carry strategically selected anchoring and functional groups will be employed. The innovative organic molecules will either bind directly to the fibers of interest, or first anchor onto specially modified carbon-based nanostructured materials (nanotubes, graphene) and then bond to the surface of the fibers to be modified (in the form of yarn and/or fabric).