Abstract
Moon's regolith contains volatiles besides water. The development of nanotechnology allowed to build sensitive, low cost, portable sensors with low power consumption.
The extremely high surfaceto-volume ratio and hollow structure of nanomaterials is practical for the adsorption of gas molecules. The advent of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) revealed the inventions of gas sensors that exploit CNTs' morphology, unique geometry, and material properties.
Upon exposure to certain gases, the changes in CNTs' properties can be detected by various methods. We use evacuated containers with functionalized MWCNTs allowing not only adsorption and resorption of the mined space resources but also identification of the gas species extracted from the Lunar regolith.
This allows efficient in situ utilization of the volatile continent adsorbed on the planetary surfaces.