Gas Sensing Fundamentals (Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors, 15)

Hardcover, x + 342 pages, colour and b&w illustrations in text, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show minor handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: High-Temperature Gas Sensors / Denny Richter [Introduction; Potentiometric Gas Sensors; Amperometric Gas Sensors; Resistive Sensors; Resonant Sensors]; Insect Olfaction as a Natural Blueprint of Gas Sensors? / Bernhard Weißbecker [The Key: Observation of Insect Behavior; First Step: Analysis of Olfaction by Trace Analysis and Electrophysiology; Second Step: Utilization of Insect Antennae as Biosensors]; Sensor Arrays, Virtual Multisensors, Data Fusion, and Gas Sensor Data Evaluation / Peter Reimann [Introduction; Sensor Arrays and Virtual Multisensors; Pattern Analysis Methods Used for Gas Sensor Systems; Systematic Data Evaluation Based on Pattern Recognition; Application Examples; Conclusions]; Carbon Nanotube Gas Sensors / Michele Penza [Introduction; Properties of CNTs; Fabrication Methods of CNTs; CNT Gas Sensors; CNT Nanosensors; Applications; Future Trends in CNT Gas Sensors; Conclusions]; New Sensing Model of (Mesoporous) In2O3 / Thorsten Wagner [Introduction; Working Principle of Semiconducting Gas Sensors; Basic Properties of In2O3; Ordered Mesoporous In2O3; Sensing Model; Application: Low Temperature Sensing of Oxidizing Gases; Conclusion]; SAW and Functional Polymers / Adnan Mujahid [Introduction; Basic Principle and Theory of SAW Resonators; Polymers as Sensing Interface; Exemplary Applications; SAW Resonators Among Acoustic Wave Sensors; Limitations & Challenges; Outlook]; Percolation Effects in Metal Oxide Gas Sensors & Related Systems / Tilman Sauerwald [Concept of Percolation: Geometrical Properties; Dynamical Aspects of Percolation: Numerical Simulations of the Conductivity; Geometrical Percolation Effects: Systems with Fixed Occupation Probability; Metal Oxide Gas Sensing Principles; Percolation in Homogenous Surface-Type Gas Sensors; Composite np-Systems; Gas Sensors Utilizing Bulk Reactions; Conclusion]; Calorimetric Gas Sensors for Hydrogen Peroxide Monitoring in Aseptic Food Processes / Patrick Kirchner [Introduction; Calorimetric Gas Sensors: A Brief Overview; Calorimetric Gas Sensors for H2O2 Monitoring; Limitations and Challenges; Further Sensor Approaches; Outlook]; Group III-Nitride Chemical Nanosensors with Optical Readout / Jörg Teubert [Introduction; GaN/AlN Quantum Dots; GaN/AlGaN Nanowire Heterostructures; InGaN/GaN Nanowire Heterostructures; Summary/Outlook]; Index -- Chemical sensors and biosensors are becoming more and more indispensable tools in life science, medicine, chemistry and biotechnology. The series covers exciting sensor-related aspects of chemistry, biochemistry, thin film and interface techniques, physics, including opto-electronics, measurement sciences and signal processing. -- This volume, which addresses various basic sensor principles, covers micro gravimetric sensors, semiconducting and nano tube sensors, calorimetric sensors and optical sensors. Furthermore, the authors discuss recent developments in the related sensitive layers including new properties of nano structured metal oxide layers. They provide in-depth insights into the unique chemistry and signal generation of copper oxide in percolating sensors and present a variety of applications of functional polymers made possible by proper imprinting. Highlights of the subjects covered include: requirements for high-temperature sensors; carbon nano tube sensors; new sensing model for nanostructured In2O3; bio mimetic approach for semiconductor sensor-based systems; optical readout for inorganic and organic semiconductor sensors; concept of virtual multisensors to improve specificity and selectivity; calorimetric sensors for hydrogen peroxide detection; percolation effect-based sensors to implement dosimeters; imprinted polymer layers for bulk and surface acoustic wave sensors.…