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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2002
Kirk S. Schanze, Gainesville, FL (US);
James M. Boncella, Gainesville, FL (US);
Kirk S. Schanze, Gainesville, FL (US);
James M. Boncella, Gainesville, FL (US);
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Gainesville, FL (US);
Abstract
The subject invention pertains to a method and apparatus for sensing nitroaromatics. The subject invention can utilize luminescent, for example fluorescent and/or electroluminescent, aryl substituted polyacetylenes and/or other substituted polyacetylenes which are luminescent for sensing nitroaromatics. In a specific embodiment, the subject invention can utilize thin films of fluorescent and/or electroluminescent aryl substituted polyacetylenes and/or other substituted polyacetylenes which are fluorescent and/or electroluminescent. In a specific embodiment, the fluorescence from thin films of fluorescent, substituted polyacetylene, such as—poly-[1-phenyl-2-(4-trimethylsilylphenyl)ethyne] (PTMSDPA) is strongly quenched by the vapors of a variety of nitroaromatic compounds present at levels ranging from parts-per-million to parts-per-billion in air.