Tiny Sensor Developed To Detect Homemade Bombs

Photo of penny and peroxide sensor The hydrogen peroxide
sensor is the size of a penny. (Credit: UCSD)

(sciencedaily) -- A team of chemists and physicists at the University of California, San Diego has developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most common form of homemade explosives. full story