Sensor for infrared communication using plant nanobionics
US11187698B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 2, 2016 |
| Grant date | Nov 30, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 26, 2038 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01N2405/04
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A living plant can function as self-powered auto-samplers and preconcentrators of an analyte within ambient groundwater, detectors of the analyte contained therein. For example, a pair of near infrared (IR) fluorescent sensors embedded within the mesophyll of the plant leaf can be used as detectors of the nitroaromatic molecules, with the first IR channel engineered through CoPhMoRe to recognize analyte via an IR fluorescent emission and the second IR channel including a functionalized nanostructure that acts as an invariant reference signal.
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