Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for Chemical and Biological Defense

by Nagarajan, R.; Zukas, Walter; Hatton, T. Alan; Lee, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780841269811
• ISBN10: 0841269815
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-26
• Publisher: American Chemical Society

Summary

This is the first time a symposium focusing on the theme of chemical and biological defense has been organized as part of a ACS national meeting. The symposium brought together a large number of academic, government and industrial scientists. The work presented spanned concepts at incipientstage in the laboratory to developed systems that can be fielded in the immediate future. The book is probably the most comprehensive compilation of research being done in this field at this time.The papers incorporated in the book cover a wide range of methods to detect chemical and biological threats and also methods to protect against them. Consequently, the book is organized into the two main categories of detection and protection. The section on detection includes various approachesincluding cantilever and nanotube based methods, immunological approaches, infrared and fluorescence techniques, porous nano systems, Raman scattering methods, etc. The section on protection includes approaches based on nanoparticulates and nanofibers and new barrier and reactive materials.

Author Biography

Ramanathan Nagarajan, Molecular Sciences and Engineering Team, Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC)
Walter Zukas, Chemical Technology Team, Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC)
T. Alan Hatton, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen J. Lee, Senior Research Scientist (ST), Office of the Director, U.S. Army Research Office

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction
Challenges for Chemical and Biological Protection	p. 3
Assessment of Nanotechnology for Chemical Biological Defense	p. 9
Detection of Chemical and Biological Agents
Piezoelectric-excited Millimeter-sized Cantilever (PEMC) Sensors for Detecting Bioterrorism Agents	p. 25
Conducting Polymer and Polymer/CNT Composite Nanofibers by Electrospinning	p. 39
Device Structures Composed of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes	p. 59
Hand Held Biowarfare Assays. Rapid Biowarfare Detection Using the Combined Attributes of Microfluidic in vitro Selections and Immunochromatographic Assays	p. 73
Portable Analytical Systems for On-Site Diagnosis of Exposure to Pesticides and Nerve Agents	p. 85
Novel Nanoarray SERS Substrates Used for High Sensitivity Virus Biosensing and Classification	p. 99
Gold Nanoparticle Based Surface Energy Transfer Probe for Accurate Identification of Biological Agents DNA	p. 115
Enhanced Raman Detection using Spray-On Nanoparticles/Remote Sensed Raman Spectroscopy	p. 131
Virus Nanoparticles for Signal Enhancement in Microarray Biosensors	p. 141
Novel GaN-based Chemical Sensors for Long-range Chemical Threat Detection	p. 155
Solid Supported Polydiacetylene Materials for Detection of Biological Targets. New Material Forms and Detection Examples	p. 169
Porous Silicon Waveguides for Small Molecule Detection	p. 185
A Microfluidic Sensor Array for Ricin Detection	p. 195
Enhanced Raman Scattering of Nitroexplosives on Metal Oxides and Nanoparticles of Ag/TiO2	p. 205
Enhanced Raman Scattering of TNT on Nanoparticles Substrates: Ag, Au and Bimetallic Au/Ag Colloidal Suspensions	p. 217
Protection from Chemical and Biological Agents
Catalytic Removal of Ethylene Oxide from Contaminated Airstreams by Alkali-Treated H-ZSM-5	p. 235
Applications of Nanocrystalline Zeolites to CWA Decontamination	p. 249
Effect of the average pore size on the adsorption capacity and off-gassing characteristics of activated carbon fabrics for decontamination of surfaces	p. 261
Nanostructured Chem-Bio Non-Woven Filter	p. 273
Polymeric Membranes: Surface Modification by "Grafting to" Method and Fabrication of Multilayered Assemblies	p. 289
Polymer-Polymer Nanocomposite Membranes as Breathable Barriers with Electro-Sensitive Permeability	p. 307
Scanning atmospheric plasma processes for surface decontamination and superhydrophobic deposition	p. 323
Indexes
Author Index	p. 339
Subject Index	p. 341
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