Chemical sensors / edited by T.E. Edmonds.
Contributor(s): Edmonds, T. E [editor]
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BookPublisher: Glasgow : Blackie and Son Ltd., 1988Description: xiv, 326 pages : illustratisons ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0216922550 (hardback); 041201601X (hardback).Subject(s): Chemical detectorsDDC classification: 620.0044 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 620.0044 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00024888 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
At the beginning of this book, and in the absence of guidance from IUPAC, it is appropriate to clarify the term 'chemical sensor'. A chemical sensor may be defined as a simple-to-use, robust device that is capable of reliable quantitative or qualitative recognition of atomic, molecular or ionic species. It is hard to imagine a field of applied chemistry in which a significant impact could not be made by such a device. Undoubtedly, it is this potential that has fuelled the contemporary preoccupation with chemical sensors. An unfortunate side-effect of this otherwise welcome interest is the use of the term 'chemical sensor' to add the chemical equivalent of a 'High-Tech gloss' to a rather ordinary device, publication, conference or research group. This loose usage of terminology is responsible in part for the ambiguity that surrounds many chemists' concepts of the form and function of chemical sensors. Further ambiguity arises from the extravagant claims that have been made for some sensors, and the impression that has been given of much 'verging-on-a-breakthrough' research. The research chemist engaged in sensor development should be mindful of the fact that the ultimate target for these devices is the real world, and that a successful laboratory device operating under well-defined conditions and careful calibration does not constitute a chemical sensor. Research into chemical sensors is not a recent phenomenon; it has been under way for over 80 years.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: Molecular and ionic recognition by biological systems / L. J. Kricka -- Part 2: Molecular and ionic recognition by chemical methods / P. D. Beer -- Part 3: Implementing molecular and ionic recognition -- Organic sensor materials in entangled and polymer-bound matrices for ion-selective electrodes / G. J. Moody and J. D. R. Thomas -- Conducting polymers / W. J. Feast -- Chemically modified electrodes / G. G. Wallace -- Immunoassay techniques / N. J. Seare -- Selective chemical transduction based on chemoreceptive control of membrane ion permeability / M. Thompson and W. H. Dorn -- Part 4: Electrochemical transduction -- Voltammetric and amperometric transducers / T. E. Edmonds -- Potentiometric transducers / B. J. Birch and T. E. Edmonds -- MOSFET devices / I. Robins -- Thick film devices / R. E. Belford, R. G. Kelly and A. E. Owen -- Part 5: Non-electrochemical transduction -- Catalytic devices / S. J. Gentry -- Spectroscopic and fibre-optic transducers / A. L. Harmer and R. Narayanaswamy -- Piezoelectric transducers / G. J. Bastiaans.