PFI:AIR - TT: Transitioning Explosive Sensing Technology to the Marketplace

PFI:AIR - TT：将爆炸物传感技术推向市场

• 批准号: 1543047
• 负责人: Allen Apblett
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1543047&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; AIR; TT; Transitioning; Explosive

This PFI: AIR Technology Translation project focuses on translating the development of a sensor that is based on nanoparticles that change color in the presence of vapors from improvised terrorist explosives and the hydrogen peroxide used to manufacture them. The sensor is important because it improves public safety through a cost-effective way to detect peroxide-based explosives, as well as hydrogen peroxide itself during transportation spills or other accidental release events. The project will result in a prototype electronic "area sensor" that has high sensitivity coupled with high selectivity for peroxide based explosives using simple electronics and a color-changing sensor. These features provide significantly enhanced performance and major cost-savings when compared to the leading competing explosive sensing technologies in this market space. Under this project, the best methods for preparing sensing films will be determined and the response of the sensing films with hydrogen peroxide and the improvised explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP) will be explored. This will provide critical information for the design of the technology that lies at the heart of the prototype sensor and is important for the commercialization of the sensor. The research will also lead to the completion of the design and fabrication of operational sensors using off-the-shelf electronics to keep costs low. In addition, there will be an assessment of potential interferents to ensure that these don't pose problems in sensor commercialization. In addition, personnel involved in this project, including undergraduate and graduates students, will receive entrepreneurship and technology translation experiences through group meetings, workshops, and an entrepreneurship program. The project engages XploSafe, LLC to provide test environments and to guide the commercialization of this technology translation effort from research discovery toward commercial reality.

该PFI：AIR技术翻译项目的重点是翻译传感器的开发，该传感器基于纳米颗粒，在简易恐怖爆炸物和用于制造它们的过氧化氢的蒸汽存在下改变颜色。 该传感器非常重要，因为它通过一种具有成本效益的方式来检测过氧化物爆炸物，以及在运输泄漏或其他意外释放事件期间检测过氧化氢本身，从而提高了公共安全。该项目将产生一个电子“面积传感器”原型，该传感器使用简单的电子设备和一个变色传感器，对基于过氧化物的爆炸物具有高灵敏度和高选择性。与该市场领域领先的爆炸物传感技术相比，这些功能提供了显著增强的性能和重大的成本节约。 在该项目下，将确定制备传感膜的最佳方法，并探索传感膜对过氧化氢和简易爆炸物三过氧化三丙酮的反应。这将为原型传感器核心技术的设计提供关键信息，并且对于传感器的商业化非常重要。该研究还将导致使用现成的电子设备完成操作传感器的设计和制造，以保持低成本。此外，还将对潜在的干扰物进行评估，以确保这些干扰物不会对传感器的商业化造成问题。此外，参与该项目的人员，包括本科生和研究生，将通过小组会议，研讨会和创业计划获得创业和技术翻译经验。该项目聘请XploSafe，LLC提供测试环境，并指导这项技术从研究发现到商业现实的商业化转化工作。