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TNT-sensing plastic exposes land mines

A new polymer that detects trinitrotoluene, or TNT, could help in the search for millions of unexploded land mines buried around the world.

References:

Yang, J.-S., and T.M. Swager. 1998. Fluorescent porous polymer films as TNT chemosensors: Electronic and structural effects. Journal of the American Chemical Society. Available at http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/jacsat/browse_asap.html

Further Readings:

Wu, C. 1998. Digging in the dirt. Science News 153(March 28):202.

Sources:

Nomadics, Inc.
1730 Climarron Plaza
P.O. Box 2496
Stillwater, OK 74076

Timothy M. Swager
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Chemistry
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

David R. Walt
Tufts University
Department of Chemistry
Pearson Laboratory
Medford, MA 02155

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 21, November 21, 1998, p. 327. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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