Frontiers in Chemical Sensors - Novel Principles and Techniques (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)

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, to name just a few. The introduction of optical ?bres and integrated optics has added more value to such sensing since now light can be con?ned and readily carried to dif?cult-to-reach locations, higher information density can be transported, indicator dyes can be immobilised at the distal end or the evanescent ?eld for unique chemical and biochemical sensing (including multiplexed and distributed measurements), optical s- sors can now be subject to mass production and novel sensing schemes have been established (interferometric, surface plasmon resonance, ?uorescence energy transfer, supramolecular recognition . . . ).

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors, 3
Release date:	February 2010
First published:	2005
Editors:	Guillermo Orellana • Maria Cruz Moreno-Bondi
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	372
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-06612-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Optics (light) Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Nuclear structure physics Books > Science & Mathematics > Chemistry > Analytical chemistry > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Biochemistry > General Books > Professional & Technical > Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies > Industrial chemistry > General Promotions
LSN:	3-642-06612-7
Barcode:	9783642066122

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