Start-up Company Prepares to Commercialize Novel Detector for Medical, Military Applications
The business partners involved in PAIR Technologies with their high-precision detector, which holds promise in numerous medical, military, environmental, and industrial applications. From left, Dan Frost, Scott Jones, Bruce Chase, and John Rabolt.
PAIR Technologies, a start-up company established by University of Delaware researchers and a former DuPont scientist, is preparing to commercialize a high-precision detector — a planar array infrared spectrograph — that can identify biological and chemical agents in solids, liquids, and gases present at low levels, in less than a second.
The revolutionary technology holds promise in multiple applications, ranging from the early detection of diseases, to monitoring for chemical weapons and environmental pollutants, to enhancing quality-control efforts in manufacturing processes.
John Rabolt, the Karl W. and Renate Böer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UD, and his students invented and patented the technology in 2001. (more…)
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