Abstract:

Body protective clothing and suits against NBC agents are playing vital role in the NBC defence during war and training scenarios. Hence, reviewing about the past, present and expected future development in this NBC protective clothing area is an important task. This review brings out a sequence related to the NBC protective clothing, their type, various materials available for the development of NBC clothing, their evaluation procedures, washing methodologies, decontamination methods. Moreover, the futuristic trends in NBC protective clothing such as detection and decontamination integrated NBC protective clothing based on electrospun nanofiber technology and molecularly imprinted polymer technology are also reviewed and discussed.