AIR Option 1: Technology Translation - Portable, Naked Eye-based, Ultrasensitive Explosive Vapors Detector

该PFI：AIR技术转化项目的重点是转化分子筛和荧光传感技术，以填补手持式、超灵敏爆炸物检测技术的空白。翻译后的分子筛和荧光传感技术具有以下独特功能：通过尺寸排阻和信号放大荧光猝灭快速浓缩爆炸性蒸气（“分子线”），与领先的竞争便携式爆炸物检测技术如Ionscan相比，RedXDefense和Fido XT在这个市场空间。该项目通过将一个简单的预浓缩器膜与超灵敏的纳米纤维传感膜相结合来实现这一目标，从而产生了一种低成本的手持式原型设备，可以在紫外线下通过肉眼快速“读出”超痕量爆炸物。该伙伴关系与瑞典爆炸物处理和排雷中心以及康涅狄格大学技术转让中心合作，在爆炸物蒸汽探测市场以及融资和商业化的其他方面提供指导，因为它们涉及到将集成的手持式爆炸物预浓缩器/传感器装置沿着一条可能导致竞争性商业现实的道路转化的潜力。 潜在的经济影响预计将在未来两到三年内通过制造和向军事和排雷公司销售产品产生收入，这将有助于提高美国在手持式爆炸物探测市场的竞争力。长期的社会影响将是使第一反应人员和安全人员掌握（或超越）警犬探测的能力，从而保护平民和环境。

This PFI: AIR Technology Translation project focuses on translating molecular sieve and fluorescent sensing technology to fill handheld, ultrasensitive explosive detection technology gap. The translated molecular sieve and fluorescent sensing technology has the following unique features: fast concentration of explosive vapors through size-exclusion and signal-amplified fluorescence quenching ('molecular wire') that provides cost-effective, handheld, rapid and naked-eye based ultrasensitive detection of a range of military explosives when compared to the leading competing portable explosives detection technologies such as Ionscan, RedXDefense and Fido XT in this market space. The project accomplishes this goal by integrating a simple pre-concentrator membrane with ultrasensitive nanofibrous sensing membrane resulting in a low-cost, handheld prototype device to rapidly 'read-out' ultra-trace quantities of explosives by naked eye under UV light. The partnership engages Swedish Explosive Ordinance Disposal and Demining Center and University of Connecticut Technology Transfer Center to provide guidance in the explosive vapor detection market and other aspects of financing and commercialization as they pertain to the potential to translate the integrated handheld explosives pre-concentrator/sensor device along a path that may result in a competitive commercial reality. The potential economic impact is expected to generate revenue through manufacturing and sale of the products to the military and demining companies in the next two to three years, which will contribute to the U.S. competitiveness in handheld explosives detection market. The societal impact, long term, will be to bring the capabilities of (or beyond) canine detection into the hands of first responder and security personnel, thus protecting civilians and the environment.