PNNL senses collaboration

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has brokered a cooperative partnership between a US firm, a Russian Institute and its scientists for commercialisation of a miniature hydrogen gas sensor.

The US Department of Energy's

(PNNL) has brokered a partnership between a

firm and a Russian Institute for commercialisation of a miniature hydrogen gas sensor.

According to PNNL, such a device will provide added safety, detection capability and efficiency to a variety of applications across industry.

The collaboration represents the latest commercial venture between technical institutes in the former Soviet Union, DOE national laboratories and US industry under the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration's Global Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention program (GIPP).

GIPP is a non-proliferation program that helps to redirect former weapons of mass destruction scientists to sustainable, non-military employment in countries where scientists and technicians are at risk of recruitment by terrorists or rogue states.

The new approach to the sensor technology was created by scientists at the Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry in Moscow, Russia. The institute retains invention ownership rights within the former Soviet bloc countries.

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