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The consortium that gathered Onwork, Lemar and Polyanswer, with the support of Porto’s Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Sciences, and CITEVE, developed, within the scope of the Texboost project, an innovative gown that offers total protection against X-rays: does not use lead and it is lighter than the ones currently on the market. The product is undergoing patenting.
The next phase is to “move on to the national and international promotion”, explains João Almeida, from Onwork. In addition to the gown, other hospital X-ray protection equipment is being developed, namely gowns, vests and thyroid protectors.
The managing partner of Onwork confesses that this project was based on trial and error: “we tried to apply the solution to the yarn and to the inner membranes, and then to coatings to see which way we could follow”. The analysis process to verify the X-ray accumulations and the feedback from the end users were also essential to reach the results.