The need for versatile, rapid, low cost environmental monitoring of high volatility toxic gases for defense and homeland security has increased dramatically in recent years due to growing concerns over terrorism and chemical agents use in warfare. Our sorbents can be used as a direct replacement of sorbents currently used in thermal desorption systems. VOC^x offers special grade of sorbents with improved sorption capacity and selectivity, which can be used to reduce the weight, size, power consumption, and physical or logistical burden of protective systems used by warfighters. Our adsorbents show potential for use in chemical defense applications such as atmospheric gas sampling, as well as industrial protection applications.

             Adsorbents for these applications need extremely high adsorption capacity for a wide spectrum of high volatility toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) at trace concentrations, while simultaneously retaining the ability to work at high humid conditions. In the past, we have developed specific adsorbents for effective adsorption of ammonia, chlorine, methyl bromide, sulfur dioxide, methane and other highly volatile TICs.

            In addition to regular powder based adsorbents, we have the capability of making sorbents in variety of form factor such as sheets, foam, monolithic, fibers, etc. We can also make custom based sorbent for specific analytes. Furthermore, our sorbents can be used to increase filter and mask efficiency to meet emerging threats and reduce the burden of the combat troops. Our adsorbents can improve protective systems for both filtration and percutaneous protection. If you are interested in evaluating our sorbents for chem-bio defense applications, please send an email to Sales@Y-Carbon.US and we can send you our sorbent kit. We also offer metal impregnated carbon and high surface area metal carbide - porous carbon composite (WC/C, Mo₂C/C, etc.) to increase the adsorption efficiency of high volatility TICs.