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Sensors, Volume 5, Issue 4

2005 April-May - 19 articles

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Articles (19)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,685 Views
16 Pages

A Complex Permittivity Based Sensor for the Electrical Characterization of High-Voltage Transformer Oils

  • Constantine T. Dervos,
  • Christos D. Paraskevas,
  • Panayotis D. Skafidas and
  • Panayota Vassiliou

24 May 2005

This work investigates the use of a specially designed cylindrical metal cell, inorder to obtain complex permittivity and tanδ data of highly insulating High Voltage (HV)transformer oil samples. The data are obtained at a wide range of frequencies an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
10,193 Views
9 Pages

Polycrystalline Silicon ISFETs on Glass Substrate

  • Feng Yan,
  • Pedro Estrela,
  • Yang Mo,
  • Piero Migliorato and
  • Hiroshi Maeda

10 May 2005

The Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistor (ISFET) operation based onpolycrystalline silicon thin film transistors is reported. These devices can be fabricated oninexpensive disposable substrates such as glass or plastics and are, therefore, promising...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,445 Views
8 Pages

4 May 2005

A new kind of bio-nanocomposite photoelectrode was fabricated through directimmobilization of the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center (RC) proteins on ananocrystalline TiO2 matrix prepared by anodic electrodeposition. The near-infrared (NIR)-vis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
13,407 Views
11 Pages

4 May 2005

An amperometric biosensor for hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) was developed viaan easy and effective enzyme immobilization method with the “sandwich” configuration:ferrocene-chitosan: HRP: chitosan-glyoxal using a glassy carbon electrode as the basicelectro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,414 Views
7 Pages

4 May 2005

A simple and promising H2O2 biosensor has been developed by successfulentrapment of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in a gelatine matrix which was cross-linkedwith formaldehyde. The large microscopic surface area and porous morphology of thegelatine mat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,707 Views
9 Pages

Determination of Trace Antimony (III) by Adsorption Voltammetry at Carbon Paste Electrode

  • Huishi Guo,
  • Yiheng Li,
  • Xiaokang Chen,
  • Libo Nie and
  • Nongyue He

4 May 2005

This work presents a sensitive method for the determination of trace antimonybased on the antimony-pyrogallol red (PGR) adsorption at a carbon paste electrode (CPE).The optimal conditions were to use an electrode containing 25% paraffin oil and 75%hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10,186 Views
8 Pages

Protein Arrays for Multidrug-resistance in Human Leukemia Cell Determination

  • Juan Du,
  • Baoan Chen,
  • Chunxiu Zhang,
  • Xiaoxing Xu,
  • Jian Cheng,
  • Feng Gao and
  • Zuhong Lu

3 May 2005

A novel technique was developed, that was high throughput simultaneousscreening of multiple resistance protein expression based on a protein array system. Themethod combined the advantage of the specificity of enzyme-linked immunosorbentassays with t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,427 Views
14 Pages

Optical and Nonlinear Optical Response of Light Sensor Thin Films

  • H. Liu,
  • A. J. Rua,
  • O. Vasquez,
  • V. S. Vikhnin,
  • L. F.E. Fernandez,
  • F. Fonseca,
  • O. Resto and
  • S. Z. Weisz

27 April 2005

For potential ultrafast optical sensor application, both VO2 thin films andnanocomposite crystal-Si enriched SiO2 thin films grown on fused quartz substrates weresuccessfully prepared using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and RF co-sputteringtechniques...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
11,967 Views
10 Pages

27 April 2005

Tannic acid-doped polypyrrole (PPY/TA) films have been grown on goldelectrodes for selective electrochemical detection of dopamine (DA). Electrochemicalquartz crystal microbalance (EQCM) studies revealed that, in vivid contrast toperchlorate-doped po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
28,427 Views
11 Pages

On Calibration of pH Meters

  • K. L. Cheng and
  • Da-Ming Zhu

27 April 2005

The calibration of pH meters including the pH glass electrode, ISE electrodes,buffers, and the general background for calibration are reviewed. Understanding of basicconcepts of pH, pOH, and electrode mechanism is emphasized. New concepts of pH, pOH,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
11,510 Views
15 Pages

27 April 2005

The redox protein and enzyme, such as hemoglobin (Hb), horseradish peroxidase(HRP) and glucose oxidase (GOx), was immobilized on the surface of the carbon nanotubemodified glassy carbon (CNT/GC) electrode, respectively. The cyclic voltammetric result...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,484 Views
10 Pages

27 April 2005

Since the study of Al3+ ion on the enzyme activity by using of electrochemical techniques was rarely found in available literatures, the differential-pulse polarography (DPP) technique was applied to study the effects of Al3+ ion on the glutamate deh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,717 Views
10 Pages

26 April 2005

Trace amounts of nitric oxide (NO) have been determined in aqueous phosphate buffersolutions (pH=7.4) by using a glassy carbon electrode coated with three charge-different polymerfilms. The glassy carbon electrode was coated first with negatively cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,356 Views
14 Pages

26 April 2005

A stable Fe(4-TMPyP)-DNA-PADDA (FePyDP) film was characterized onpyrolytic graphite electrode (PGE) or an indium-tin oxide (ITO) electrode through thesupramolecular interaction between water-soluble iron porphyrin (Fe(4-TMPyP)) and DNAtemplate, where...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
13,124 Views
5 Pages

Fabrication of Polypyrrole Nanowire and Nanotube Arrays

  • Fa-Liang Cheng,
  • Ming-Liang Zhang and
  • Hong Wang

15 April 2005

Large area highly uniform and ordered polypyrrole nanowire and nanotubearrays were fabricated by chemical oxidation polymerization with the help of a porousanodic aluminium oxide (AAO) template. Under 0.2 moL/L pyrrole (H2O) and 0.2 moL/LFeCl3 (H2O)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,346 Views
9 Pages

8 April 2005

MC simulations of a set of zigzag ((9,0)-(14,0)) and armchair ((6,6)-(10,10))carbon nanotubes immersed in water have been carried out in an NpT-ensemble (512 watermolecules, p=1 bar, T=298 K). Intermolecular interactions were described by BMWpotentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,632 Views
11 Pages

8 April 2005

This contribution is based on our presentation at the 1st International Symposiumon Sensor Science, Paris, 16-20 June 2003. It presents recent results regarding theelectrochemical determination of submicromolar and nanomolar concentrations of various...

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