Data processing: measuring – calibrating – or testing – Measurement system in a specific environment – Chemical analysis
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-16
2011-08-16
Bullock, In Suk (Department: 1772)
Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
Measurement system in a specific environment
Chemical analysis
C702S023000, C702S024000, C702S027000, C702S030000, C702S032000, C422S083000, C422S098000, C436S149000, C073S023200, C073S023210, C977S920000, C977S921000, C977S922000, C977S938000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08000903
ABSTRACT:
Methods for using modified single wall carbon nanotubes (“SWCNTs”) to detect presence and/or concentration of a gas component, such as a halogen (e.g., Cl2), hydrogen halides (e.g., HCl), a hydrocarbon (e.g., CnH2n+2), an alcohol, an aldehyde or a ketone, to which an unmodified SWCNT is substantially non-reactive. In a first embodiment, a connected network of SWCNTs is coated with a selected polymer, such as chlorosulfonated polyethylene, hydroxypropyl cellulose, polystyrene and/or polyvinylalcohol, and change in an electrical parameter or response value (e.g., conductance, current, voltage difference or resistance) of the coated versus uncoated SWCNT networks is analyzed. In a second embodiment, the network is doped with a transition element, such as Pd, Pt, Rh, Ir, Ru, Os and/or Au, and change in an electrical parameter value is again analyzed. The parameter change value depends monotonically, not necessarily linearly, upon concentration of the gas component. Two general algorithms are presented for estimating concentration value(s), or upper or lower concentration bounds on such values, from measured differences of response values.
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Bullock In Suk
Eom Robert
Padilla Robert M.
Schipper John F.
The United States of America as represented by the Administrator
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