First fifty years of chemoresistive gas sensors

Chemosensors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Neri, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemosensors; Gas sensor history; Gas sensors perspectives; Sensing materials

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMOSENSOR; GAS DETECTORS; GASES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CHEMO-RESISTIVE GAS SENSORS; CHEMO-SENSORS; CHEMORESISTIVE SENSORS; GAS DETECTION; GAS SENSOR HISTORY; GAS SENSOR PERSPECTIVE; GAS-SENSORS; SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS; SENSING MATERIAL;

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

EID: 84929754193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22279040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/chemosensors3010001     Document Type: Review

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