Ebook: Advanced Sensors for Safety and Security

This book results from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop titled “Technological Innovations in CBRNE Sensing and Detection for Safety, Security, and Sustainability” held in Yerevan, Armenia in 2012. The objective was to discuss and exchange views as to how fusion of advanced technologies can lead to improved sensors/detectors in support of defense, security, and situational awareness. The chapters range from policy and implementation, advanced sensor platforms using stand-off (THz and optical) and point-contact methods for detection of chemical, nuclear, biological, nuclear and explosive agents and contaminants in water, to synthesis methods for several materials used for sensors. In view of asymmetric, kinetic, and distributed nature of threat vectors, an emphasis is placed to examine new generation of sensors/detectors that utilize an ecosystems of innovation and advanced sciences convergence in support of effective counter-measures against CBRNE threats. The book will be of considerable interest and value to those already pursuing or considering careers in the field of nanostructured materials, and sensing/detection of CBRNE agents and water-borne contaminants. For policy implementation and compliance standpoint, the book serves as a resource of several informative contributions. In general, it serves as a valuable source of information for those interested in how nanomaterials and nanotechnologies are advancing the field of sensing and detection using nexus of advanced technologies for scientists, technologists, policy makers, and soldiers and commanders.

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This book results from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop titled “Technological Innovations in CBRNE Sensing and Detection for Safety, Security, and Sustainability” held in Yerevan, Armenia in 2012. The objective was to discuss and exchange views as to how fusion of advanced technologies can lead to improved sensors/detectors in support of defense, security, and situational awareness. The chapters range from policy and implementation, advanced sensor platforms using stand-off (THz and optical) and point-contact methods for detection of chemical, nuclear, biological, nuclear and explosive agents and contaminants in water, to synthesis methods for several materials used for sensors. In view of asymmetric, kinetic, and distributed nature of threat vectors, an emphasis is placed to examine new generation of sensors/detectors that utilize an ecosystems of innovation and advanced sciences convergence in support of effective counter-measures against CBRNE threats. The book will be of considerable interest and value to those already pursuing or considering careers in the field of nanostructured materials, and sensing/detection of CBRNE agents and water-borne contaminants. For policy implementation and compliance standpoint, the book serves as a resource of several informative contributions. In general, it serves as a valuable source of information for those interested in how nanomaterials and nanotechnologies are advancing the field of sensing and detection using nexus of advanced technologies for scientists, technologists, policy makers, and soldiers and commanders.

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This book results from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop titled “Technological Innovations in CBRNE Sensing and Detection for Safety, Security, and Sustainability” held in Yerevan, Armenia in 2012. The objective was to discuss and exchange views as to how fusion of advanced technologies can lead to improved sensors/detectors in support of defense, security, and situational awareness. The chapters range from policy and implementation, advanced sensor platforms using stand-off (THz and optical) and point-contact methods for detection of chemical, nuclear, biological, nuclear and explosive agents and contaminants in water, to synthesis methods for several materials used for sensors. In view of asymmetric, kinetic, and distributed nature of threat vectors, an emphasis is placed to examine new generation of sensors/detectors that utilize an ecosystems of innovation and advanced sciences convergence in support of effective counter-measures against CBRNE threats. The book will be of considerable interest and value to those already pursuing or considering careers in the field of nanostructured materials, and sensing/detection of CBRNE agents and water-borne contaminants. For policy implementation and compliance standpoint, the book serves as a resource of several informative contributions. In general, it serves as a valuable source of information for those interested in how nanomaterials and nanotechnologies are advancing the field of sensing and detection using nexus of advanced technologies for scientists, technologists, policy makers, and soldiers and commanders.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Ecosystem of Innovations in Nanomaterials Based CBRNE Sensors and Threat Mitigation....Pages 3-25
New Terahertz Security Opportunities Based on Nanometric Technology....Pages 27-41
Structured Inorganic Oxide-Based Materials for the Absorption and Destruction of CBRN Agents....Pages 43-53
The Quirra Syndrome: Matter of Translational Medicine....Pages 55-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The Yin and Yang of Countering Biological Threats: Public Health and Security Under the International Health Regulations, Biological Weapons Convention, and the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1540....Pages 67-74
Timely Detection of Outbreaks in the Public Health Surveillance System of the Republic of Moldova....Pages 75-81
Advanced Sciences Convergence to Analyze Impact of Nanomaterials on Environment, Health and Safety....Pages 83-91
Conversion Disorders in Patients with Discogenic Radiculopathy....Pages 93-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Use of Metaloxide, Porous Silicon and Carbon Nanotube Gas Sensors for Safety and Security....Pages 105-124
Chemical Sensors Based on Nano-hexagonal Tungsten Oxide: Synthesis and Characterization....Pages 125-138
Noise Reduction in (Bio-) Chemical Sensors Functionalized with Carbon Nanotube Multilayers....Pages 139-150
Polymer Nanocomposite Films as a Potential Sensor....Pages 151-162
Carboxyhemoglobin in Blood of Smokers and Non-smokers Determined by Gas Chromatography with Thermal Conductivity Detector....Pages 163-171
Electron Emission Standed Nanodosimetry and Gas Detection....Pages 173-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Photoelectric Properties of Selectively Sensitive Sensors for the Detection of Hazardous Materials....Pages 183-191
Portable Point-of-Care Optical Device to Detect Brain Injury....Pages 193-202
Absorbance Control of Liquids Employing Transmission Sub-wavelength DLC Diffraction Grating....Pages 203-212
Detection and Monitoring of Surface Deformations in Armenia Using INSAR Satellite....Pages 213-223
Applications of an Effect Based on Electromagnetic Field-Matter Interactions for Investigations of Water....Pages 225-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Real-Time Monitoring of Water Contaminants for Situation Awareness Using Electromagnetic Field Sensing System....Pages 233-241
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Development of Polymeric Cryogels as Potential Matrices for Removing Antibiotics from Wastewater....Pages 243-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
On the Concept of System to Detect Unclaimed Inclusions of Fissile and Radioactive Materials in Hand Luggage and Cargo Trucking....Pages 253-260
New Model of Spectral Analysis of Integral Flux of Radiation....Pages 261-269
Cyclic Amino Acid Derivatives as New Generation of Radioprotectors....Pages 271-278
New Polymeric Materials for Medicine and Rehabilitation of Buildings and Different Surfaces Exposed to Radioactive Contamination....Pages 279-286
Application of New Heavy Scintillation Crystals for Remote Detection of Fissile Materials....Pages 287-296
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Inorganic Nanotubes and Fullerene-Like Nano-particles: From the Lab to Applications....Pages 299-302
Porous Silicon by Galvanostatic Electrochemical Anodisation of Epitaxial Silicon, Polycrystalline Silicon and Silicon on Insulator Layers....Pages 303-320
Advanced Materials for IR Sensors....Pages 321-327
Small Carbon Molecules and Quasi-Fullerenes as Products of New Method of Hydrocarbons Pyrolysis....Pages 329-338
Hetero-Carbon: Heteroatomic Molecules and Nano-structures of Carbon....Pages 339-357
A Preliminary Analysis of Wind-Hydrogen System in Bulgaria....Pages 359-366
Back Matter....Pages 367-375