History
ISOTRON'S HISTORY
Isotron is establishing itself as a leading entity in the development of advanced technologies for environmental remediation and emergency response. The company has served in the development of electrochemical and polymer technologies for large-scale remediation of urban areas, soil, groundwater and water supplies. Recently, Isotron has advanced the state of the art and is now a recognized innovator of reactive nanoparticle and polymer coating systems that are used in emergency response and large scale remediation of urban areas.
The founding team has an established record in the development and commercialization of innovative coatings and decontamination technologies for high performance industrial applications in defense, petrochemical, nuclear, homeland security, environmental remediation and emergency response. Isotron engineers,under contract for the US Department of Energy, developed and deployed advanced electrokinetic processes for decontaminating surfaces exposed to radionuclides and heavy metals. The contaminant capture media were based on patented polymeric hydrogel technology that was trade-named "Electrosorb(r)".
Isotron was at the forefront of strippable coatings innovation when the company was founded in 1986. The team developed Isolock(r)-300 to address the radioactive contaminants associated with the nuclear reactor refueling operation and has been used at a number of nuclear power plants including Oyster Creek, DC Cook, and Houston Power and Light. The team developed Orion, a strippable coating for radioactive contamination removal, under a Defense Advanced Research project Agency (DARPA) contract which was then evaluated by the Environmental Protection Agency alongside competing coating technologies. Based on the success of Orion, Isotron was awarded a contract by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to incorporate reactive materials into strippable coatings to defeat chemical and biological warfare agents. Isotron has also developed environmentally- and applicator-friendly vehicle coatings for the military that address chemical protection and signature management.
The company developed a low-cost, point-of-use device for detecting radioactive particles in drinking water, called RadiaCards, for the Navy's Expeditionary Unit Water Purification group. What makes this technology stand alone from most devices is that it requires no power or moving parts and a reading is obtained within seconds. Isotron has cards to detect radio forms of Cesium, Strontium, Radium, and Iodine.
Isotron has or has held several patented commercialized high performance polymer systems that are in use today. Some of these patents include(d):
5,489,370 entitled "Removal of ions from a bulk source by electropotential ion transport using a host receptor matrix"
5,482,632 entitled "Extracting a target ion from an aqueous solution by ion exchange and electropotential ion transport"
5,262,024 entitled "Method for effecting the desorption of ionic species from a soil matrix using wave energy"
5,405,509 entitled "Remediation of a bulk source by electropotential ion transport using a host receptor matrix"
Pending patents today encompass technologies related to the use of reactive and catalytic nanoparticles in coatings to wide-area expedient decontamination technologies.