Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Contaminant detection device and method
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Application No.: US15529211Application Date: 2015-12-03
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Publication No.: US10684249B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Sundaram Gunasekaran , Woo-Jin Chang , Jiang Yang , Rajesh Seenivasan
- Applicant: UWM Research Foundation, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WI Milwaukee
- Assignee: UWM Research Foundation, Inc.
- Current Assignee: UWM Research Foundation, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WI Milwaukee
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2015/063809 WO 20151203
- International Announcement: WO2016/090176 WO 20160609
- Main IPC: G01N27/327
- IPC: G01N27/327 ; G01N27/411 ; G01N27/42 ; G01N27/416 ; G01N27/30 ; G01N27/414 ; G01N33/18 ; G01N27/333

Abstract:
A device for measuring pH levels and contaminant concentration includes an electrode assembly that is electrically coupled to a control unit. The electrode assembly includes a first contact electrically coupled to a reference electrode, a second contact electrically coupled to a working electrode, and a third contact electrically coupled to a counter electrode. The working electrode may be modified to include a cysteine functionalized graphene oxide with polypyrrole nanocomposite. In operation, the control unit may apply a complex signal to the working electrode via the second contact in order to adhere and subsequently strip contaminant ions from the fluid sample to the working electrode. During this process, a current may be measured across the working electrode and the counter electrode to measure contaminant ion concentration. The pH of the fluid sample may also be determined by a current measured across the reference electrode and the counter electrode. In some examples, the pH may be used to calibrate the measured levels of the contaminant ions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170363572A1 CONTAMINANT DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD Public/Granted day:2017-12-21
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