SBIR Phase II: Screen-Printed Gas Sensor Using Nanoparticulate Catalyst

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）二期项目旨在将高性能电流气体传感器AGS技术与印刷电子制造方法相结合，首先用于检测一氧化碳（CO）。在第一阶段，KWJ展示了一种独特的技术组合，并制造了一种CO传感器，在性能测试中，该传感器比商用传感器大10-100倍，价格贵10-100倍。新型独特的几何传感器响应特性与商用传感器一样好，甚至更好。打印ags传感器为传感器提供了一个低成本、高性能的通用平台。在第二阶段，这种新型的打印co传感器和制造过程将被优化，并设计和制造创新的beta原型。原型传感器将接受全面的测试，并与最先进的电子产品集成，包括微型微型射频识别技术，以展示一个完全补偿，高性能，低成本的CO传感器和传感器系统。这将是美国几十年来AGS技术的第一次重大进步，由此产生的产品可能会对市场产生破坏性影响。该项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力在于这种新颖，廉价的印刷气体传感器能够将AGS技术中的高性能与微电子工业的现代制造技术相结合。该NSF SBIR的创新产品可以为传感器的使用开辟新的领域。立法趋势表明需要一种低成本、高性能的一氧化碳传感器。这项工作的结果将是现有广泛使用的AGSs监测的下一个飞跃。最初的影响将包括：1]CO传感器的改进，使高性能家庭CO报警器能够更好地保护人类健康和财产；2]运输和基础设施应用中的广泛监测能力，对安全和国土安全都很重要；3]能够将气体监测整合到消费品中，并建立即时的全球网络来监测和评估，以改善健康、安全以及环境保护。打印的AGS不仅可以取代目前销售的数百万个大型传感器，将成本和材料使用降低10-100倍，为传感器提供更环保的足迹，而且还可以使高性能传感能力的发展进入新的更大的市场。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project seeks to combine the technology for a high performance amperometric gas sensor, AGS, with the fabrication methods of printed electronics, first for sensing carbon monoxide (CO). In Phase I KWJ demonstrated a unique combination of technologies and fabricated a CO sensor that, in performance testing, was compared to commercial sensors 10-100 times larger and 10-100 times more expensive. The new unique geometry sensor response characteristics we as good or better than commercial sensors. The printed-AGS sensor provides a general platform for sensors that is both low cost and high performance. In Phase II, this novel Printed-CO-sensor and the process for fabrication will be optimized and innovative beta-prototypes designed and fabricated. The prototype sensors will be subjected to comprehensive testing and integrated with state-of-the-art electronics including tiny micro-powered RFID technology to demonstrate a fully compensated, high performance, yet low-cost, CO sensor and sensor system. This would represent the first major advancement of AGS technology in the USA in several decades, and the resulting product is potentially disruptive to the marketplace.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project lies in the ability of this novel, inexpensive printed gas sensor to combine the high performance found in the AGS technology and the modern fabrication technology from the microelectronics industry. The innovative products from this NSF SBIR can open a new landscape for sensor use. Legislative trends are pointing to a need for a low cost, high performance CO sensor. The result of this work will be the next leap forward in the existing widely used AGSs for monitoring. Initial impacts will include: 1] improvements in CO sensors allowing high performance home CO alarms to better protect human health as well as property, 2] widespread monitoring capability in transportation and infrastructure applications, important to both safety and homeland security; and 3] the ability to integrate gas monitoring into consumer products and create instant worldwide networks to monitor and assess for improved health and safety as well as environmental protection. The printed AGS may not only replace millions of larger sensors now sold, reducing cost and material use by 10-100X, providing a greener footprint for sensors, but also enable evolution of high performance sensing capability into new and larger markets.