New Era in the Detection of Explosives

The results of the NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) program project titled “Magnetic resonance & MW detection of improvised explosive and illicit materials” and numbered 985005, which was coordinated by GTU Physics Faculty Prof. Bulat Rameev and participated by Assoc. Prof. Georgy Mozzhukhin (PhD), another GTU Physics Faculty, and by other project staff, were published in Chemical Physics' September 2018 issue (Volume 531), and the method for the detection of explosives and hazardous materials using nuclear magnetic resonance was described. The study had been carried out in collaboration with Russian scientists (Prof. G. Kupriyanova (PhD) et al. from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia). The method brought on as a result of the project study enables the development of effective next generation explosive and hazardous materials detection devices that are both cheaper to produce and faster in terms of analysis. The project group is currently conducting studies on the topic in collaboration with research groups from the US, Japan, Germany, the UK, Russia, Sweden and Slovenia.