Successful completion will lead to an entirely new, field-portable, body-wearable, handheld, voltammetric electrochemical sensor technology with "fingerprint" discrimination of analytes, for NASA application not only in contamination of spacecraft, but also, e.g., for fuel leaks. Apart from the NASA application, commercial applications are in toxic gas and pesticide and detection in the agriculture, mining and industrial markets, where extant technologies are bulky and expensive, and/or suffer from poor selectivity, lack of body-wearability, poor interferents discrimination, false positives, slow detection. Based on recent surveys, the commercial/-industrial market is estimated at up to $2B/year in the US alone.
Successful completion will lead to an entirely new, field-portable, body-wearable, handheld, voltammetric electrochemical sensor technology with "fingerprint" discrimination of analytes, for NASA application not only in contamination of spacecraft, but also, e.g., for fuel leaks. Apart from the NASA application, commercial applications are in toxic gas and pesticide and detection in the agriculture, mining and industrial markets, where extant technologies are bulky and expensive, and/or suffer from poor selectivity, lack of body-wearability, poor interferents discrimination, false positives, slow detection. Based on recent surveys, the commercial/-industrial market is estimated at up to $2B/year in the US alone.
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