Simple Self-Contained Self-Sterilizing Bag

描述（由申请人提供）：世界各地和美国境内恐怖袭击的出现产生了对简单低成本灭菌技术的需求。这种简单廉价的自消毒塑料的开发不仅满足军事和民防需求，而且还将在医院和第三世界医疗环境中找到许多应用。自消毒塑料的创新开发是基于一种经济的市售聚合物的转化。一次性自消毒袋的所有其他组件都可从商业来源容易地获得。可使用自动化包装设备组装自灭菌袋套件。目前可用的材料和工艺的使用使得自消毒袋的广泛使用在经济上是可行的。这里提出的自消毒材料的发展具有巨大的潜力，防御生物攻击，以及在改善美国和第三世界国家的医疗保健的潜力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The advent of terrorist attacks throughout the world and within the United States has created a need for simple low-cost sterilization techniques. This development of a simple inexpensive self-sterilization plastic not only meets military and civil defense requirements; it will also find numerous applications in hospital and third-world medical settings. The innovative development of the self-sterilizing plastic is based on the conversion of an economical commercially available polymer. All of the other components of the disposable self-sterilizing bag are readily available from commercial sources. Assembling of the self-sterilizing bag kits can be done using automated packaging equipment. The use of currently available materials and processes makes the wide spread uses of self-sterilizing bags economically feasible. The development of self-sterilizing materials proposed here has enormous potential for defense against biological attack as well potentials in improving healthcare in the US and third world countries.