Carbon nanotubes for gas sensing applications: Principles and transducers

Carbon Nanomaterials for Gas Adsorption

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 333-468

  Penza, Michele ^a  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4032/9789814364195     Document Type: Chapter

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