Nicholas Kybert
Physics & Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
"Nanotube 'Noses': Putting Sniffer Dogs out of Business"

As an all-surface material with environmentally-sensitive electrical properties, carbon nanotubes provide a unique platform for the fabrication of sensors that can detect subtle odor differences and trace chemical residues quickly and reproducibly. This talk will cover advances in scalable fabrication of the devices and their application to challenges ranging from the detection of traces of explosives to 'smelling' cancer. While these experiments are still being conducted in the research laboratory, the opportunities and potential real-world applications that could emerge from this work are wide-ranging and highly impactful.