{"id":19274,"date":"2025-02-18T04:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T09:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/next-generation-pfas-free-cbrn-protective-membrane\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T15:10:25","slug":"next-generation-pfas-free-cbrn-protective-membrane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/next-generation-pfas-free-cbrn-protective-membrane\/","title":{"rendered":"Next-Generation PFAS-Free CBRN Protective Membrane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:40px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" alt=\"Next-Generation PFAS-Free CBRN Protective Membrane\" title=\"News-2025-05_CBRN01\" src=\"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/News-2025-05_CBRN01.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-19270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/News-2025-05_CBRN01-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gcttg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/News-2025-05_CBRN01-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gcttg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/News-2025-05_CBRN01-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gcttg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/News-2025-05_CBRN01.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:left;--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-custom_color_13);\"><p>Developing innovative materials in partnership with the industry is our specialty.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:left;\"><p>CTT and Stedfast (<a href=\"https:\/\/stedfast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.stedfast.com<\/a>) have been awarded a research grant from Quebec\u2019s Ministry of Economy, Innovation, and Energy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economie.gouv.qc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MEIE<\/a>), through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prima.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PRIMA<\/a> Qu\u00e9bec (Quebec\u2019s Research and Innovation Hub for Advanced Materials), to develop a protective barrier membrane against Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) threats.<\/p>\n<p>As a key component of personal protective equipment for first responders, barrier textiles must provide maximum protection in scenarios such as industrial accidents or terrorist attacks. Overcoming the technical challenges associated with these products is particularly exciting for our research team. The commonly used reference standard is NFPA 1990 \/ NFPA 1994, and CTT\u2019s experts can also test the products developed throughout this project.<\/p>\n<p>The main challenge is developing a <strong>PFAS-free CBRN membrane<\/strong>, eliminating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to reduce the environmental footprint of these advanced materials. More information on these substances is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/fr\/sante-canada\/services\/substances-chimiques\/autres-substances-chimiques-interets\/substances-perfluoroalkyliques-polyfluoroalkyliques.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Part of this research is conducted under the<a href=\"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/ctt-group\/chaire-de-recherche-ecotextile\/\"> <strong>Ecotextile Research Chair<\/strong> at CTT Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:left;--awb-margin-top:20px;\"><p><strong>GCTT Group \u2013 At the heart of the matter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing innovative materials in partnership with the industry is our specialty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-la-une-en","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19277,"href":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19274\/revisions\/19277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcttg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}