Wireless sensor

Title: Wireless sensor

Disclosed is a sensor for detecting a target material. The sensor includes a ferromagnetic metal and a molecular recognition reagent coupled to the ferromagnetic metal. The molecular recognition reagent is operable to expand upon exposure to vapor or liquid from the target material such that the molecular recognition reagent changes a tensile stress upon the ferromagnetic metal. The target material is detected based on changes in the magnetic switching characteristics of the ferromagnetic metal caused by the changes in the tensile stress.

Inventors:: Lamberti, Vincent E.; Howell, JR, Layton N.; Mee, David K.; Sepaniak, Michael J.

Issue Date:: 2016-02-09

OSTI Identifier:: 1237857

Assignee:: Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, University of Tennessee Research Foundation NNSASC

Patent Number(s):: 9,255,920

Application Number:: 14/493,811

Contract Number:: NA0001942

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2014 Sep 23

Research Org:: Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, Reston, VA (United States) University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION

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