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Frontiers in Chemical Sensors

Publication year: 2005

ISBN: 978-3-540-27757-6

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With their similarity to the organs of the most advanced creatures that inhabit the Earth, sensors are regarded as being the “senses of electronics”: arti?cial eyes and ears that are capable of seeing and hearing beyond the range of - man perception; electronic noses and tongues that can recognise odours and ?avours without a lifetime training; touch that is able not only to feel the texture and temperature of the materials but even to discern their chemical compo- tion. Among the world of chemical sensors, optical devices (sometimes termed “optodes”, from the Greek “the optical way”) have reached a prominent place in those areas where the features of light and of the light-matter interaction show their advantage: contactless or long-distance interrogation, detection sensitivity, analyte selectivity, absence of electrical interference or risks, and lack of analyte consumption,


Subject: Chemistry and Materials Science, Biosensors, DNA biosensors, Food Analysis, High-throughput Screening, Medical Diagnostics, Optical Sensing, Optosensing, Sensors, particles, Spectroscopy