Patent ID: 8361810

Claim:
A method for producing a biological-weapon-sensing fibrous-network product, comprising-the steps: adding units of a biological-weapon-sensing agent to a suspension of fibers suitable for making a fibrous-network product; mixing the units of the biological-weapon-sensing agent with the fiber suspension to form a mixture; and forming the mixture into a fibrous-network product comprising the fibers and the units of biological-weapon-sensing agent intermingled with the fibers through at least a part of a thickness dimension of the fibrous-network product, thereby producing the biological-weapon-sensing fibrous-network product, wherein the units of biological-weapon-sensing agent comprise units of biopolymeric material; wherein the units of biopolymeric material comprise biopolymeric liposomes; and wherein the biological-weapon-sensing agent comprises biopolymeric liposomes encapsulated in a transparent sol-gel.