On-chip microelectrodes for electrochemistry with moveable PPy bilayer actuators as working electrodes

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-78

  Jager, Edwin W H ^a   Smela, Elisabeth ^b   Inganäs, Olle ^a  

^a Laboratory of Applied Physics   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MICROELECTRODES; OXIDATION; PERFORMANCE; POLYPYRROLES;

ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROACTUATORS; MICROFABRICATION;

MICROACTUATORS;

EID: 0032653366     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4005(99)00159-8     Document Type: Article

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