Low-cost gas sensors produced by the graphite line-patterning technique applied to monitoring banana ripeness

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 6425-6434

  Manzoli, Alexandra ^a   Steffens, Clarice ^a   Paschoalin, Rafaella T ^a   Correa, Alessandra A ^b   Alves, William F ^a,c   Leite, Fábio L ^d   Herrmann, Paulo S P ^a  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ACRE   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conducting polymer; Electronic nose; Low cost gas sensors

Indexed keywords

4-TOLUENESULFONIC ACID; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; BENZENESULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CAMPHOR; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; GRAPHITE; MESYLIC ACID; MESYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLYANILINE; POLYMER; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TOLUENESULFONIC ACID;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRUIT; GAS; METHODOLOGY; MUSA; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ABSORPTION; ANILINE COMPOUNDS; BENZENESULFONATES; CAMPHOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GASES; GRAPHITE; MESYLATES; MUSA; POLYMERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SULFONIC ACIDS;

EID: 79959846537     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110606425     Document Type: Article

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