Abstract: The present invention provides a method of making an adsorbent material for protection and sensing applications from gas and liquid phase media by grafting sorbent moieties onto a rigid scaffold. The grafting can be to an organic linker of a metal organic framework by post synthetic modification, to the metal nodes of the metal organic framework via ligand displacement, or by intercalating the sorbent moiety into the pores of the metal organic framework either during formation of the scaffold or by diffusion into the pores after the scaffold is formed.

Abstract: The invention disclosed is an apparatus for explosive blast suppression, and a method therefor, the apparatus comprising a hemispherical enclosure (10) defined by an upstanding wall, positioning means (42) associated with the enclosure, for positioning the explosive device substantially equidistant from any point on the wall, and in a preferred embodiment includes an integral floor (40) and a rounded lower wall, to provide a substantially even distribution of blast forces in all directions toward the wall. The enclosure is made of composite textile material, comprising one or several layers of a ballistic material (e.g. Dyneema Kevlar) sandwiched between inner and outer layers of a light-weight rip-stop nylon fabric material.