Patent ID: 9080984
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
1. A molecular biosensor for determining blast, ballistic and blunt trauma comprising: a lipid vesicle comprising a detection agent; a housing, said vesicle contained on or within said housing, said housing having a portion capable of transmitting a blast, ballistic or blunt traumatic force generated external to said housing to said vesicle; wherein said vesicle comprises phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, sphingomyelin cholesterol, ceramide, or combinations thereof; wherein the phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, sphingomyelin cholesterol, ceramide, or combinations thereof are inserted into a circular dichroism (CD) meter to measure a differential absorbance of left and right circularly polarized light; and further wherein a differential circular dichroism is created by disruption of intramolecular chiral iterations of three-dimensional molecular structures as well as a chiral symmetry breaking of nonchiral molecules in a sensor material construction.