Recent advances in gas phase microcantileverbased sensing

Reviews in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 135-158

  Long, Zhou ^b   Kou, Lu ^b   Sepaniak, Michael J ^a   Hou, Xiandeng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

MC sensor array; MC based gas phase sensing; Microcantilever

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879025378     PISSN: 07930135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/revac-2012-0034     Document Type: Article

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