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

这个PFI：空气技术转换项目专注于转换分子筛和荧光传感技术，以填补手持、超灵敏爆炸物检测技术的空白。转换后的分子筛和荧光传感技术具有以下独特功能：通过尺寸排除和信号放大荧光猝灭(“分子线”)快速浓缩爆炸物蒸气，与市场领域领先的竞争便携式爆炸物检测技术(如IonScan、RedXDefense和Fido XT)相比，该技术提供了具有成本效益的、手持、快速和基于肉眼的一系列军用爆炸物的超灵敏检测。该项目通过将简单的预浓缩器膜与超灵敏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原型设备，可以在紫外光下通过肉眼快速读取超痕量的爆炸物。该伙伴关系与瑞典爆炸物条例处置和排雷中心和康涅狄格大学技术转移中心合作，在爆炸物蒸气探测市场以及融资和商业化的其他方面提供指导，因为这些方面涉及将集成的手持爆炸物预浓缩器/传感器设备转化为可能导致竞争性商业现实的途径的潜力。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来产生收入，这将有助于美国在手持爆炸物检测市场的竞争力。从长远来看，其社会影响将是将警犬探测能力(或更多)掌握在第一反应人员和安全人员手中，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.