Surface with two paint strips for detection and warning of chemical warfare and radiological agents
View Patent ↗A system for warning of corrosion, chemical, or radiological substances. The system comprises painting a surface with a paint or coating that includes an indicator material and monitoring the surface for indications of the corrosion, chemical, or radiological substances.
1. A paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances, comprising:
a first paint strip on the surface, said first paint strip including a first indicator material carried by said first paint strip that provides an indication of the radiological substances; and
a second paint strip on the surface, said second paint strip including a second indicator material carried by said second paint strip that provides an indication of the chemical substances.
2. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said second indicator material is a material that provides chemically-sensitive additives to said paint.
3. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said second indicator material includes fluorescent molecules and particles sensitive to pH or chloride.
4. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes scintillation materials.
5. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes thermo-luminescent materials.
6. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material is scintillation material.
7. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes crystalline pigments that produce luminescence when irradiated by alpha, beta or gamma rays.
8. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes crystalline pigments that produce luminescence when irradiated by alpha rays.
9. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes crystalline pigments that produce luminescence when irradiated by beta rays.
10. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical or and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes crystalline pigments that produce luminescence when irradiated by gamma rays.
11. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said second indicator material includes materials sensitive to nerve agents.
12. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes one or more materials sensitive to alpha-particle emitters, or beta-particle emitters, or gamma-ray emitters, or X-ray emissions.
13. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes crystalline pigments that produce luminescence when irradiated by gamma rays and wherein said first indicator material includes organic binders with refractive-index matching to said crystalline pigments.
14. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes inorganic scintillation pigments sensitive to alpha particles or gamma rays.
15. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes organic scintillation pigments sensitive to beta particles.
16. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes thermo-luminescent pigments sensitive to alpha particles, beta particles or gamma rays.
17. The paint on a surface that warns of chemical and radiological substances of claim 1 wherein said first indicator material includes photo-luminescent pigments sensitive to alpha particles, beta particles or gamma rays.