Super-hydrophobic "smart" sand for buried explosive detection

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 195, Issue , 2014, Pages 52-57

  Sun, Xiangcheng ^a   Liu, Yixin ^a   Mopidevi, Srilaya ^b   Meng, Yongtao ^a   Huang, Fei ^a   Parisi, Joseph ^a   Nieh, Mu Ping ^a   Cornelius, Chris ^c   Suib, Steven L ^a   Lei, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

"Smart" sand; Buried explosive; Fluorescence; Polystrene; Pyrene; Quenching; Sensing

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE DETECTION; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION SPECTRA; FLUORESCENT COMPOSITE; LAND MINE DETECTION; NITROAROMATIC EXPLOSIVES; POLYSTRENE; SENSING; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITE FILMS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EXPLOSIVES; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PYRENE; QUENCHING; SOILS;

SAND;

EID: 84893181412     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2013.12.095     Document Type: Article

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