′Smart′ clothing to protect against radiation exposure

Hand-held laser devices have made significant progress over the past years without however any regulations safeguarding the operators’ skin against the hazardous effects of laser radiation. To protect the skin of machine operators as well as of people in the immediate vicinity against accidental laser irradiation, an EU-funded consortium set out to develop passive and active high-performance textile technology for manufacturing protective clothing.

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