Low power explosive detection exploiting the time domain

该项目旨在创造新的荧光材料和方法，以便在一个紧凑、低功率的设备中有选择地检测痕量爆炸物。该项目预计将根据新材料与爆炸物的相互作用制定新材料的设计规则，创建评估材料的新分析方法，并发明新的传感协议。预期的成果将是传感器能够迅速和灵敏地进行探测，并具有部署所需的选择性。这应该提供显着的好处，包括传感过程的基本理解，可以应用于一系列的化学威胁，和应用的结果，即传感材料的爆炸物，可用于手持低功率探测器。

This project aims to create new fluorescent materials and methods to selectively detect explosives at trace levels in a compact, low-power device. The project expects to develop design rules for new materials based on their interactions with explosives, create new analytical methods for evaluating the materials, and invent new sensing protocols. Expected outcomes will be sensors that can detect rapidly and sensitively, with the selectivity required for deployment. This should provide significant benefits including a fundamental understanding of sensing processes that can be applied to a range of chemical threats, and an applied outcome, namely sensing materials for explosives that can be used in a handheld low power detector.