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Applied Physics Letters / Volume 83 / Issue 7 / INTERDISCIPLINARY AND GENERAL PHYSICS

Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 1471 (2003); doi:10.1063/1.1602156 (3 pages)

Sensitive detection of plastic explosives with self-assembled monolayer-coated microcantilevers

L. A. Pinnaduwage1,2, V. Boiadjiev1,2, J. E. Hawk1,2, and T. Thundat1,2

1Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee  37831-6123
2and Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37932

(Received 15 May 2003; accepted 27 June 2003)

We report the detection of 10–30 parts-per-trillion levels of pentaerythritol tetranitrate and hexahydro-1,3,5-triazine within 20 s of exposure to a silicon microcantilever with its gold surface modified with a self-assembled monolayer of 4-mercaptobenzoic acid. These measurements correspond to a limit of detection of a few fg. © 2003 American Institute of Physics.

© 2003 American Institute of Physics

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Keywords

explosions, gas sensors, self-assembly

PACS

  • 82.33.Vx

    Reactions in flames, combustion, and explosions

  • 07.07.Df

    Sensors (chemical, optical, electrical, movement, gas, etc.); remote sensing

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0003-6951 (print)  
1077-3118 (online)

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