SBIR Phase I: Screen-Printed Gas Sensor using Nanoparticulate Catalyst

SBIR 第一阶段：使用纳米颗粒催化剂的丝网印刷气体传感器

• 批准号: 0945515
• 负责人: Joseph Stetter
• 金额: $ 14.94万
• 依托单位: KWJ Engineering Incorporated
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0945515&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Screen; Printed; Gas

This Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project will result in the design and manufacture of an industrial quality, electrochemical, Carbon Monoxide (CO) sensor based on screen-printed electronics technology. Printed electronics is a growing field, and some groups have applied it to create low-cost biosensors or temperature sensors. However, no one has yet applied printed electronics to making an electrochemical (EC) gas sensors. The team has extensive knowledge and experience in the design and manufacture of electrochemical sensors, and has done prior R&D with printed sensor electrodes. As such, the company has the unique opportunity and qualifications to merge these two fields and create an innovative product of significant merit: an industrial quality electrochemical sensor costing less than $0.25 to produce in high volume (as compared to industrial EC sensors that can cost well over $20 to purchase even in volume). The broader impacts of this research arise from the fact that while the sensor proposed will be ideal for detection of CO only, very few changes to the production techniques developed through this SBIR will be required to produce similar EC sensors for the detection of other toxic gases. These gases include: O2, NO, H2S, SO2, Ozone, and NO2, for which EC sensors are commonly needed and used. The design, production, and sales of electrochemical sensors, and the monitors/detectors that incorporate them, is a worldwide market valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. These sensors and detectors are used to detect a variety of gases in fields such as environmental monitoring and control, fuel processing, medical gas, national security, home inspection, first responder, worker safety and health, scientific research, and personal and home protection.

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）项目将导致基于丝网印刷电子技术的工业质量，电化学，一氧化碳（CO）传感器的设计和制造。印刷电子是一个不断发展的领域，一些研究小组已经将其应用于制造低成本的生物传感器或温度传感器。然而，还没有人将印刷电子技术应用于制造电化学（EC）气体传感器。该团队在电化学传感器的设计和制造方面拥有丰富的知识和经验，并且已经完成了印刷传感器电极的前期研发。因此，该公司有独特的机会和资格将这两个领域合并，并创造出一种具有重大价值的创新产品：工业质量的电化学传感器，大批量生产成本低于0.25美元（与工业EC传感器相比，即使批量购买成本也超过20美元）。这项研究的更广泛的影响来自于这样一个事实，即虽然所提出的传感器将是理想的CO检测，很少的变化，通过该SBIR开发的生产技术将需要生产类似的EC传感器用于检测其他有毒气体。这些气体包括：O2，NO，H2S，SO2，臭氧和NO2，通常需要和使用EC传感器。电化学传感器的设计、生产和销售，以及包含它们的监视器/检测器，是一个价值数亿美元的全球市场。这些传感器和检测器用于检测环境监测和控制、燃料处理、医疗气体、国家安全、家庭检查、第一响应者、工人安全和健康、科学研究以及个人和家庭保护等领域的各种气体。