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NASA’s Ames Research
Center, Moffett Field, Calif.,
has won the 2012 NASA
Government Invention of
theYear for a tiny sensor
that can detect chemicals in
the air. “High Sensitive, Low
Power and Compact Nano
Sensors for Trace Chemical
Detection” was invented by
Jing Li and Meyya Meyyappan
of NASA Ames, andYijang Lu
of the University of California, Santa Cruz. The invention includes
methods and systems for estimating one or more unknown parts
of a gas using carbon nanotubes.The electronic sensors developed
from these carbon nanotubes are inexpensive, light-weight and
consume very little power
Edible biosensors to measure core body temp, detect GI
tract problems. A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon
University are developing an edible battery-powered biosensor
platform that could be applied to a diverse range of uses from
detecting diseases of the digestive system to assessing core body
temperature
A multiple-channel silicon-based sensing chip, which consists
of 64 nanosensors and is less than one square centimeter
Image credit: NASA Ames/Dominic Hart