detectors

The experimental equipment built and used by the students. Credit: Nabil Salama and Agit Akgümüs

Students built a dark matter detector and set new experimental boundaries

A compact experiment at the University of Hamburg searched for axions, one of the main candidates for dark matter, and showed that even small arrays can contribute to particle physics.
Prof. Tomer Wolansky. Photo: Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv 360 Podcast: The Whole Truth About Dark Matter | Particle Physics

Toyota's right-hand fuel cell presented at its exhibition in New York in 2014. Photo: Joseph Brent.

Fast and sensitive detector for hydrogen detection

Source: Julia Janeta.

To smell like a dog you have to learn to sniff!

Thin layers that change color from white to blue in response to a chemical warfare agent [courtesy: Swager lab]

Rapid detection of chemical warfare agents

Chemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have succeeded in developing innovative nanoparticles capable of performing, simultaneously, two types of imaging - magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and fluorescence - in living animals. (Credit: Illustration by Christine Daniloff/MIT)

Two detectors in one nanoparticle

Mercury Kanzitis, Northwestern University

Development of an improved detector for detecting nuclear weapons

AT Professor Charlie Johnson who led the research

Researchers have succeeded in attaching odor receptors to nanotubes

Para hydrogen and ortho hydrogen. Photo: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories

Nuclear magnetic resonance without a magnet?

Chemical detector without battery. Photo: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Chemical detector without battery

electrodes

A new method for making electrodes

Rigoberto Advincula

Sensors for detecting explosives and monitoring food products

A light-sensitive structure made of graphene and polymers

Light is able to control the electronic properties of graphene