Effect of trace residual ionic impurities on the response of chemiresistor sensors with dithiol-linked monolayer-protected gold (nano)clusters as sensing interfaces

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 521-528

  Guo, Jianli ^a   Pang, Pengfei ^a   Cai, Qingyun ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chemiresistor sensor; Chromatography; Dithiol; Ionic current; MPCs

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHY; CROSSLINKING; ELECTRODES; GOLD; IMPURITIES; THIN FILMS;

CHEMIRESISTOR SENSORS; DITHIOL; INTERDIGITATED ELECTRODES; IONIC CURRENT; IONIC IMPURITIES; MONOLAYER-PROTECTED GOLD NANO-CLUSTERS (MPC); SENSING INTERFACES;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 33845677167     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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