Current Trends and Challenges in Explosives Detection Using Nanotechnology

Abstract

This article highlights the applications of nanotechnology in the detection of explosives. The increasing rise in terrorist acts throughout the globe has brought attention to the significance of locating hidden bombs and motivated new propelled breakthroughs to ensure public safety. Recognizing explosives and closely related-threatening combinations has already risen to the top of the priority list for contemporary national security and counterterrorism applications. Sensors based on nanotechnology have a fair probability of fulfilling all the criteria needed to be a practical solution for explosive trace detection. Nanowire/nanotube, nanomechanical devices, and electronic noses are three nanosensor technologies that have the most potential to develop into commercially viable technology platforms for the detection of trace explosives. Certain functionalized nanoparticles can exhibit different behaviors as a result of unique interactions with nitroaromatics. Semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) have been used as wearable chemical sensors. In this paper, the potential of nanosensors has been exposed that can be used to build a sensor system with high selectivity and sensitivity and appropriate platforms for signal transduction for the detection of explosives.