Israel develops explosive devices using nanotechnology

Scientists at Israel's Tracense Company have successfully researched an electronic chip with microscopic chemical sensors that can detect explosives in the air at extremely low concentrations.

Tracense's equipment, which is still in the prototype stage, can detect signs of several different explosives, even from a few meters away, despite the fact that these explosives can be manipulated by the explosives. Exterior with strong chemicals.

This device is very compact, portable, convenient to use.

Current detection methods may also detect some different types of explosives, but with high concentrations.

In addition, these methods also require a lot of cumbersome equipment and a very time consuming sample preparation. Meanwhile, the nanocomposites used by Tracense combine multiple sensors to simultaneously detect multiple explosive threats.

This device has been tested with a number of explosives such as TNT, RCX and HMX, which are now used in military and commercial applications and other explosives such as TATP and HMTD. These are the types of explosives commonly used in homemade bombs and are difficult to detect by current methods.

A representative from Tracense said the promising test results show the potential of this new type of device for remote detection of explosives.