Now Lasers To Be Used To Detect Roadside Bombs

Linking the story to the most recent explosions that took place in Agra, India which involved the use of a chemical constituent named Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs),a new measure has been devised by the Michigan State University with the help of which it would be possible to detect these chemicals or any explosive elements with the help of active lasers.
With the aid of large scale experimentations and researches conducted by Marcos Dantus, chemistry professor and founder of BioPhotonic Solutions, a guaranteed success is being aimed at the development of this new technique. Lasers have been used in many applications since recent times but the advent of this type of application is for the very first time.
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Finding IEDs, which account for around 60 per cent of the coalition soldiers’ deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq, is challenging “since large number of chemical compounds in an environment such as that of a bustling city can mask the select few molecules that one is trying to detect,” The Science Daily quoted Dantus as saying.

Though the news seems very easy to read through, it may involve large amount of hard work on the part of the scientists and chemical experts to detect the complex molecular structure of the explosive materials which involves tones of chaining and rigorous web structures.

Yes difficult though, it would be precise and efficient to the billionth of a gram. Initially designed for the comfort and use of microscopes, with the determined efforts of all leading personnel, a success was finally made to broaden the horizon and make the efforts come true to foot.

Briefly, the technique would make use of short pulses that would make the molecules of the structure vibrate which  makes it possible to distinguish any ordinary matter from explosive materials.

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