NASA Announces 2012 Inventions of the Year

The 2012 NASA Government Invention of the Year was awarded to a tiny sensor that detects chemicals in the air. The technology, titled “High Sensitive, Low Power and Compact Nano Sensors for Trace Chemical Detection,” was invented by Jing Li and Meyya Meyyappan of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA, and Yijang Lu of the University of California, Santa Cruz.