Response to ITI Problem

Last week I posted a brief piece looking at a ‘new’ chemical safety problem, instant tank ignition (ITI), described by Valerii Ivanov in a LinkedIn.com article. He posited that there is currently no effective safety response to this type of conflagration, in part because of the lack of a fast enough fire detection system. Today, I read an article at ChemistryWorld.com that may describe the sensor for developing that critical fire suppression system.

The article notes that:

“Now, an international team of researchers has combined cellulose/MXene with gallium–indium alloy nanoparticles in a low-cost, scalable process to create a durable film that enables ultrafast, reversible thermoresistive switching. The new material can activate alarms in roughly 4 seconds upon exposure to flame, and recover its resistance in about half that time.”