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Super-sensitive spray-on explosive detector

27-May-2008 - US scientists have designed a new spray-on explosive detector sensitive enough to detect just a billionth of a gram of explosive. After treatment the explosive glows blue under UV light, making it perfect for use in the field. William Trogler and his team at the University of California, San ...

explosives fluorescence materials chemistry +5

UC San Diego Scientists Develop Sensor for Homemade Bombs

20-Mar-2008 - A team of chemists and physicists at the University of California, San Diego has developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most common form of homemade explosives. The invention and operation of this penny-sized ...

American Chemical Society biochemistry chemistry +8

Customized Y-shaped carbon nanotubes can compute

16-Aug-2005 - Researchers at UCSD and Clemson University have discovered that specially synthesized carbon nanotube structures exhibit electronic properties that are improved over conventional transistors used in computers. UCSD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering professors Prabhakar Bandaru and Sungho Jin, ...

carbon nanotubes catalysts Clemson University +6