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Cell Phone Detection Techniques
A team composed of Rick Pratt, Dave Puczyki, Kyle Bunch, Ryan Slaugh, Morris Good, and Doug McMakin teamed together to attempt to exploit cellular telephone features and detect if a person was carrying a cellular telephone into a Limited Area. The cell phone’s electromagnetic properties were measured, analyzed, and tested in over 10 different ways to determine if an exploitable signature exists. The method that appears to have the most potential for success without adding an external tag is to measure the RF spectrum, not in the cell phone band, but between 240 and 400MHz. Figures 1- 7 show the detected signal levels from cell phones from three different manufacturers
Transcription Profiling Distinguishes Dose-Dependent Effects in the Livers of Rats Treated with Clofibrate
Evolution of the Telomere-Associated Protein POT1a in Arabidopsis thaliana Is Characterized by Positive Selection to Reinforce Protein–Protein Interaction
Enhanced gas permeation through graphene nanocomposites
The use of membranes for gas permeation
and phase separation offers
many distinct advantages over other more energy-dependent processes.
The operational efficiencies of these membranes rely heavily on high
gas permeability. Here, we report membranes with significantly increased
permeability without a considerable decrease in mechanical strength
or selectivity, synthesized from a polymer nanocomposite that incorporates
graphene and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). These graphene–PDMS
nanocomposite membranes were able to enhance the gas permeation of
N<sub>2</sub>, CO<sub>2</sub>, Ar, and CH<sub>4</sub> in reference
to pristine PDMS membranes. This is achieved by creating interfacial
voids between the graphene flakes and polymer chains, which increases
the fractional free volume within the nanocomposites, giving rise
to an increase in permeation. An optimal loading of graphene was found
to be 0.25 wt%, while greater loading created agglomeration of the
graphene flakes, hence reducing the effective surface area. We present
the enhancements that the membranes can provide to sensing and phase
separation applications. We show that these nanocomposites are near
transparent to CO<sub>2</sub> gas molecules in sensing measurements.
This study offers a new area of research for graphene-based nanocomposites