Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP170102072
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Vapour phase detection of chemical warfare agents. This project aims to create luminescent plastic optoelectronic materials that can detect airborne chemical warfare agents, particularly nerve agents. Such agents are often odourless and invisible at lethal concentrations, so technology must detect and identify them before exposure. The intended outcomes are design rules for sensitive and selective materials that can be used in a handheld infield detector to sense chemical warfare agents based on the materials’ photophysical properties, and new analytical methods and sensing protocols. This research will be of interest to security agencies in Australia and internationally, and will better protect our military.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2017
End Date: 05-2022
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $668,500.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Functional Materials | Optical Properties of Materials | Materials Engineering
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | National Security |
