NPMIPS, a new chemical sensor technology
Patrick Roman, Florida International University
Novel nano porous molecularly imprinted polymer sensors (NPMIPS) exploit nanotechnology to enable new micro sensor devices for chemical sensing through nanoengineered nanoporous materials. Molecular templating enables the sensors to be designed for analyte specific sensing using capacitive sensing to detect compounds of interest. It is possible for an NPMIPS sensor to have 10 to 20 different specific sensing elements covering a broad range of drugs, explosives, and other analyte classes of interest. NPMIPS may enable the development of new low-cost portable instruments for the simultaneous collection, detection, and storage of analytes of interest and their signature volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a hand-held device for field use with follow on lab analysis.
Magnetic levitation for analysis of illicit drugs
Christoffer Abrahamsson, VeriChem, Inc.
The rise of complex illicit drug mixtures containing low concentrations of highly potent opioids has made the analysis of drugs significantly more challenging. Magneto-Archimedes levitation is able to solve many of the associated problems by enabling separation of and concentration of the dilute opioids, enabling them to be detected with secondary methods of analysis, such as FTIR-ATR.
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