Apparatus and system for a molecular imprinted air filter
AssigneeUtah Valley University
InventorTimothy Edwin Doyle
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a molecular imprinted air filter for removing, detecting and/or reporting specific agents and/or molecules and comprising one or more air-permeable layers of molecular imprinted material positioned to contact molecules and/or agents in an airborne, and/or microdroplet-borne environment, a bioactive molecular imprint of a molecule that captures a specific airborne, fluid borne, and/or microdroplet-borne molecule, particle, or agent, and an electronic enhancement.
Claims16
A molecular imprinted air filter apparatus for removing, detecting and/or reporting specific agents and/or molecules, the apparatus comprising:
- a. A molecular imprinted air filter comprising an air filtering component comprising one or more air-permeable layers of molecular imprinted fabric, woven material, non-woven material and/or a porous material positioned to contact molecules and/or agents in an airborne, and/or microdroplet-borne environment;
- b. a bioactive molecular imprint wherein an imprinted or outprinted cavity is of at least one of a bioactive molecule that captures a specific airborne, fluid borne, and/or microdroplet-borne molecule, particle, or agent, and of a protein with a binding site that captures a specific airborne, fluid borne, and/or microdroplet-borne molecule, particle, or agent;
- c. a power supply and
- d. an electronic enhancement integrated and dispersed or deposited into or onto at least one of the material volume and the surface of the air filtering component of the air filter apparatus, wherein the electronic enhancement comprises at least one of an electrode, a semiconductor, a nanoparticle quantum dot, a nano-island, a quantum wire, other nanostructured component, a piezoelectric element, an acoustic waveguide, an optical waveguide, a transducer, a sensor wire, a biomimetic microchip, and a laser.
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