William Marsh Rice University

The University of Texas System

United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of Nasa

Richard T Wilkins

Enrique V Barrera

Meisha Shofner

Merlyn X Pulikkathara

Ranjii Vaidyanathan

Jing Li

Yijiang Lu

James J Hanratty

System and method for monitoring receipt and estimating flux value, in real time, of incident radiation, using two or more nanostructures (NSs) and associated terminals to provide closed electrical paths and to measure one or more electrical property change values &#x394;EPV, associated with irradiated NSs, during a sequence of irradiation time intervals. Effects of irradiation, without healing and with healing, of the NSs, are separately modeled for first order and second order healing. Change values &#x394;EPV are related to flux, to cumulative dose received by NSs, and to radiation and healing effectivity parameters and/or &#x3bc;, associated with the NS material and to the flux. Flux and/or dose are estimated in real time, based on EPV change values, using measured &#x394;EPV values. Threshold dose for specified changes of biological origin (usually undesired) can be estimated. Effects of time-dependent radiation flux are analyzed in pre-healing and healing regimes.

Real time radiation monitoring using nanotechnology

The present invention involves the interaction of radiation with functionalized carbon nanotubes that have been incorporated into various host materials, particularly polymeric ones. The present invention is directed to chemistries, methods, and apparatuses which exploit this type of radiation interaction, and to the materials which result from such interactions. The present invention is also directed toward the time dependent behavior of functionalized carbon nanotubes in such composite systems.

Functionalized carbon nanotube-polymer composites and interactions with radiation

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College Station, TX, United States of America

Richard T Wilkins