Sensors for Environment, Health and Security Advanced Materials and Technologies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baraton, Marie-Isabelle. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security,
• Subjects: Materials.; Medicine.; Physical optics.; Electronics.; Environmental protection.; Surfaces (Physics).; Material Science.; Materials Science, general.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9009-7

The growing concern worldwide for air pollution, biological threats and security issues has led to an increasing demand for sensors in multiple application areas, thus calling for a fast development of small, reliable, inexpensive sensors which can be easily integrated in various devices and equipme...

Table of Contents:

• Preface. Materials And Technologies. Metal Oxide Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Characterization in Relation with Gas Sensing Phenomena
• Spectroscopic Study of the Gas Detection Mechanism by Semiconductor Chemical Sensors
• Material Growth and Fundamental Material Characterization Techniques
• Mesoporous Indium Oxide for Gas Sensor Applications
• Synthesis and Examination of Hexagonal Tungsten Oxide
• Nanocrystals for Electrochromic and Sensing Applications
• Tin Oxide from Organo-Metallic Compounds: Materials Properties and Sensor Characteristics
• Defect Chemistry of Sensor Materials
• Light-Induced Generation of Singlet Oxygen in Porous Silicon
• Selectivity Improvement of Semiconductor Gas Sensors by Filters
• Systems and Set-ups for Effective Sensing Response Applications
• Carbon Composite Electrodes Applied for Electrochemical Sensors
• Photonic Sensors for Health and Environmental Monitoring
• Sensors Based on Technology Nano-on-Micro for Wireless Instruments Preventing Ecological and Industrial Catastrophes
• Development of a Parallel-Computing Embedded Telemetry System for Voltammetric Microsensor and Biosensor Applications
• Inductively Coupled Telemetry
• Applications To Environment, Health And Security. Biosensors
• Bacteria Detection  Biosensors
• Surface Chemistry to Bridge Inorganic Biosensor Surfaces and Biological Materials
• Singlet Oxygen Generation and Detection for Biomedical Applications
• Response of Nerve Cell to Inhibitor Recorded by Aluminium-Gallium-Nitride FET
• Microelectronics-Based Biosensors for the Detection of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
• Bionano-Microbiology
• Optical Sensors for Carbon Dioxide and their Applications
• Oxygen Indicators in Food Packaging
• Sensory Conversion Devices
• Development of Biological Sensors Based on Screen-Printed Electrodes for Environmental Pollution Monitoring
• Development of Flow Immunosensors for Organic Pollutants
• Sensors for Monitoring Air Quality in Earth and Space Environments
• Determination of the Mutagenie Effects of Pollution by AMES and Neural Networks
• Polyaniline-Based Environmental Gas Sensors
• Sensor Science for National Security
• Radiation and Nuclear Materials Detection Research and Development at ORNL
• Author Index, Subject Index.