Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Boosting the sensitivity of airport security screening

Published: Oct. 22, 2022, 6:44 p.m.

Today’s solution is a simple way to improve the sensitivity of the test often used to detect traces of explosives on the hands, carry-ons and other possessions of passengers at airport security screening stations. A group of scientists reported their innovation in ACS’ The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.