Chemical Sensors: Fundamentals of Sensing Materials, Vol. 3: Polymers and Other Materials
Sensors are the eyes, ears, and more, of the modern engineered product or system--including the living human organism. This authoritative reference work, part of Momentum Press’s new Sensor Technology series, edited by Joe Watson, will offer a complete review of all sensors and their associated instrumentation systems now commonly used in modern medicine.
This book covers a variety of topics in the rapidly developing field of chemical sensors, promising for application in various fields. The purpose of this volume is to explain and illustrate the use of multifunctional materials such as polymers, ion conductors, calixarene-based materials, biological systems and novel semiconductors in chemical sensors. Chemical sensors fabricated on the base of those materials hold a big part of chemical sensors market. Polymers and other discussed materials fundamentally differ from standard metal oxides and metals. Therefore, their application provides opportunity to design sensors on the base of absolutely other mechanisms of sensitivity. As a result, new trends for elaboration of sensors with different functional opportunities and for building instruments with previously unavailable capabilities for demanding new applications were opened.
Every chapter presented in the book addresses the peculiarities of multifunctional materials synthesis and characterization. In this book you will find also the description of a very large range of devices, which can be designed on the base of mentioned above multifunctional materials. So, this book is intended to be a primary source on both fundamental and practical information related to these multifunctional materials, which is so necessary for chemical sensor design.
The intended audience is scientists, researchers, and engineers in industries and national laboratories. With many references to the vast resource of recently published literature on the subject, this book intends to serve as a significant and insightful source of valuable information pertaining to the ongoing scientific debates, current state of understanding and future directions. However, graduate students will find the book to be very useful in their research and understanding of chemical sensors and multifunctional materials. The structure of this book offers a basis for a high-throughput instrumentation course at advanced undergraduate or graduate level. As such, it should be very useful to university students, post docs and professors.
