Single-piece solid-contact ion-selective electrodes with polymer-carbon nanotube composites

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 166-172

  Zhu, Jingwei ^a   Li, Xue ^b   Qin, Yu ^b   Zhang, Yunhong ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

All solid state electrode; Carbon nanotubes; Potentiometric sensor

Indexed keywords

ALL SOLID-STATE ELECTRODE; ALL-SOLID-STATE; CARBON-NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; CONTACT ELECTRODES; DISPERSANTS; DROP-CAST; GOOD COMPATIBILITY; MULTI-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; PLASTICIZED PVC; POLYMERIC DISPERSANTS; POTENTIAL SIGNAL; POTENTIAL STABILITY; SENSING PROPERTY; SOLID SUBSTRATES; SOLID-CONTACT; WATER LAYERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL SENSORS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRODES; ION SELECTIVE ELECTRODES; IONS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PLASTICIZERS; POLYMERS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; POTENTIOMETERS (ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS); POTENTIOMETRIC SENSORS; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 77953917175     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2010.04.041     Document Type: Article

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