374 results about "Applications of nanotechnology" patented technology

Described is a radiation dosimeter including multiple sensor devices (including one or more passive integrating electronic radiation sensor, a MEMS accelerometers, a wireless transmitters and, optionally, a GPS, a thermistor, or other chemical, biological or EMF sensors) and a computer program for the simultaneous detection and wireless transmission of ionizing radiation, motion and global position for use in occupational and environmental dosimetry. The described dosimeter utilizes new processes and algorithms to create a self-contained, passive, integrating dosimeter. Furthermore, disclosed embodiments provide the use of MEMS and nanotechnology manufacturing techniques to encapsulate individual ionizing radiation sensor elements within a radiation attenuating material that provides a “filtration bubble” around the sensor element, the use of multiple attenuating materials (filters) around multiple sensor elements, and the use of a software algorithm to discriminate between different types of ionizing radiation and different radiation energy.

A method and system for evaluating status and response of a mineral-producing field (e.g., oil and / or gas) by monitoring selected chemical and physical properties in or adjacent to a wellsite headspace. Nanotechnology sensors and other sensors are provided for one or more underground (fluid) mineral-producing wellsites to determine presence / absence of each of two or more target molecules in the fluid, relative humidity, temperature and / or fluid pressure adjacent to the wellsite and flow direction and flow velocity for the fluid. A nanosensor measures an electrical parameter value and estimates a corresponding environmental parameter value, such as water content or hydrocarbon content. The system is small enough to be located down-hole in each mineral-producing horizon for the wellsite.

The invention discloses the application of nanotechnology to the preparation of veterinary medicaments and also discloses a preparation method of veterinary nanometer suspension. The nanometer suspension prepared by the method has high stability and small irritation to animals. Compared with the common suspension or injection, the suspension prepared by the method uses less organic solvent, has a lower preparation cost, and can be used for preparing medicaments wildly used in the veterinary clinic.

A surface acoustic wave based CO2 sensor using carbon nanotubes as the sensitive layer fabricated by combining surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices and nanotechnology. The device structure consists of the gas sensitive material between the input and output interdigital transducers (IDTs) of a SAW device. The CO2 gas gets adsorbed on nanotubes when the carbon nanotube based SAW sensor is exposed to CO2 at room temperature and / or at elevated temperature, which in turn changes conductivity of the carbon nanotube. This conductivity change will affect the velocity of the SAW traveling across the nanotubes and will give a frequency change which corresponds to the percentage of the CO2 molecules adsorbed by the nanotubes.

The invention belongs to the field of nano technology and particularly relates to a method for preparing nano silver conductive ink. The method comprises the following steps: dissolving a silver salt and an organic protective agent in a solvent, adjusting the pH value of the solution to 9 to 10 with an alkaline complexing agent, and raising the temperature gradually to 30 to 100 DEG C till the reaction system is a transparent solution; and cooling the reaction system obtained by the previous step to room temperature, adding a reducer into the reaction system, and continuously stirring the reaction system for 20 to 30 minutes to obtain the nano silver conductive ink. The molar ratio of the organic protective agent to the silver salt is 0.01-3:1; each 0.01 mol of silver salt is dissolved in 5 to 50 milliliters of solvent; and the molar ratio of the reducer to the silver salt is 1-3:1. The nano silver prepared by the method has the advantages that: the particle size is less than 10 nanometers; the process is simple, the reaction conditions are mild and the reaction time is short; the raw materials are simple and the dose of the dispersant is small; the purity and concentration are high; and the conductive property is good. In addition, the preparation cost of the nano silver ink is low; no harmful waste is produced, so the requirements for 'green production' are met; and the nano silver ink can be widely used in fields of touch screens, electronic tags, thin film switches, flexible circuit boards, medical products, sensors, printing contact, radio frequency interference screening, electrolysis, multilayer circuit board hole filling and the like.