Synthetic scent hounds: Nanostructured sensor for detection of very low concentrations of explosive
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 13:30
in Physics & Chemistry
To prevent terrorist attacks at airports, it would be helpful to detect extremely low concentrations of explosives easily and reliably. Despite the development of various sensor technologies, dogs continue to be the most efficient detectors. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a German and French team has now described a type of micromechanical sensor with a structure derived from the sense organs of butterflies.