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

这个PFI：空气技术翻译项目的重点是翻译一种传感器的开发，这种传感器基于纳米颗粒，在简易恐怖分子炸药的蒸气和用于制造它们的过氧化氢存在的情况下会改变颜色。传感器之所以重要，是因为它通过一种经济高效的方式来检测基于过氧化氢的爆炸物，以及在运输泄漏或其他意外泄漏事件中检测过氧化氢本身，从而提高了公共安全。该项目将利用简单的电子设备和变色传感器制造出具有高灵敏度和对过氧化物基炸药高选择性的电子“区域传感器”原型。与该市场领域领先的竞争爆炸物传感技术相比，这些功能提供了显著增强的性能和显著的成本节约。在该项目下，将确定制备敏感膜的最佳方法，并探索敏感膜对过氧化氢和简易爆炸性三丙酮三过氧物(TATP)的响应。这将为原型传感器的核心技术的设计提供关键信息，并对传感器的商业化非常重要。这项研究还将利用现成的电子设备完成作战传感器的设计和制造，以保持低成本。此外，还将对潜在的干扰进行评估，以确保这些干扰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。该项目邀请XploSafe，LLC提供测试环境，并指导这项技术转换工作从研究发现到商业现实的商业化。

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.