Licensable Technologies : Security & Defense : Decontamination

Chemical Microsensors

Abstract
An article of manufacture is provided including a substrate having an oxide surface layer and a selective thin film of a cyclodextrin derivative chemically bound upon said substrate, said film is adapted for the inclusion of a selected organic compound therewith. Such an article can be either a chemical sensor capable of detecting a resultant mass change from inclusion of the selected organic compound or a chemical separator capable of reversibly selectively separating a selected organic compound.

IP Status: Available Exclusively

Reference Number: 25

S Number: DOE reference no.(s): 78,348

Patents & Applications:
United States National Patent Number 5418058 Issued on 05/23/1995

Posted: 09-28-2004

Contact
John Mott
Technology Transfer Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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