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Focus Area:
Detection and Identification
Project Cost:
$2,668K
Project Duration:
36 months
Performer:
FLIR
Deliverable:
500 prototypes, 2 cell phone readers.
End User:
Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, Department of Justice, and Department of Defense Crime Lab
Description:
Develop a low-cost, colorimetric cassette for the detection and identification/differentiation of permanganates, peroxides, nitroaromatics, nitrate esters and nitramines, inorganic nitrates, ammonium nitrate, urea nitrate, chlorates, and perchlorates from one sample. A separate cassette will detect and identify aluminum, magnesium, and Iron(II).
Operational Impact:
Provides a single step colorimetric test platform capable of reading multi-chemistry kits.