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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2021
University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Gentex Corporation, Zeeland, MI (US);
Ling Zang, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Jayc Johnson, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Paul Slattum, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Benjamin Ross Bunes, Murray, UT (US);
Douglas Wayne Later, Sandy, UT (US);
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
GENTEX CORPORATION, Zeeland, MI (US);
Abstract
A sensor to detect solid particles of a target salt can include a support substrate, an adsorption layer, a sensing layer oriented between the support substrate and the adsorption layer, and an electrode pair in contact with the sensing layer and separated by the sensing layer. The adsorption layer can include an ion exchange medium formed of a first porous structured material functionalized with basic or acidic functional groups. The basic or acidic functional groups can remove an acid or base component from the target salt to form a free base or free acid, respectively, of the target salt. The sensing layer can include a second porous structured material functionalized to detect the free base or acid of the target salt by a change in conductivity.