Sensitive and fast recognition of explosives using fluorescent polymer sensors and pattern recognition analysis

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1237-1243

  Cho, Junghwan ^a   Anandakathir, Robinson ^c   Kumar, Abhishek ^b,c   Kumar, Jayant ^b,c   Kurup, Pradeep U ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymers; Explosives; Fluorescence quenching; Fuzzy ARTMAP; Optical sensor array; Principle component analysis; SVM

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ANALYTES; FAST RECOGNITION; FEATURE PATTERN; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; FLUORESCENT MATERIALS; FLUORESCENT POLYMERS; FUZZY ARTMAP; PARTS PER BILLION (PPB) LEVEL; PEAK EMISSIONS; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION RATES; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SVM; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME-DEPENDENT;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL SENSORS; POLYMER FILMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUENCHING; SENSOR ARRAYS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TOLUENE; VAPORS;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 81155131423     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2011.09.055     Document Type: Article

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