Preface ....................................................... vii
List of Contributors ........................................... ix
Chapter 1 Solid-State Gas Sensors ............................. 1
Ying Hu, Ooi Kiang Tan, Wenqing Cao, and
Weiguang Zhu
Chapter 2 Conducting Polymer Nanocomposite Membrane as
Chemical Sensors ................................... 43
Manoj K. Ram, Ozlem Yavuz, and Matt Aldissi
Chapter 3 Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds: The Role
of Tetrapyrrole Pigment-Oriented Thin Films ........ 73
Hanming Ding
Chapter 4 Modeling of Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor
Response ........................................... 97
Subramanian K.R.S. Sankaranarayanan, Venkat R.
Bhethanabotla, and Babu Joseph
Chapter 5 Recent Advances in the Development of Sensors
for Toxicity Monitoring ........................... 135
Ibtisam E. Tothill
Chapter 6 Application of Electronic Noses and Tongues ....... 173
Anil K. Deisingh
Chapter 7 Applications of Sensors in Food and
Environmental Analysis ............................ 195
Richard O'Kennedy, W.J.J. Finlay, Stephen Hearty,
Paul Leonard, Joanne Brennan, Sharon Stapleton,
Susan Townsend, Alfredo Darmaninsheehan, Andrew
Baxter, and Claire Jones
Chapter 8 Electronic Nose Applications in Medical
Diagnose .......................................... 233
Corrado Di Natale, Giorgio Pennazza, Eugenia
Martinelli, Marco Santonico, Roberto Paolesse,
Claudia Roscioni, and Arnaldo D'Amico
Chapter 9 DNA Biosensor for Environmental Risk Assessment
and Drugs Studies ................................. 249
Graziana Bagni and Marco Mascini
Chapter 10 Methods of Detection of Explosives: As Chemical
Warfare Agents .................................... 277
Sagar Yelleti, Ravil A. Sitdikov, David Faguy,
Ebtisam S. Wilkins, and Ihab Seoudi
Chapter 11 Detection and Identification of Organophosphorus
Compounds: As Chemical Warfare Agents ............. 295
Ravil A. Sitdikov, Dmitri M. Ivnitski,
Ebtisam S. Wilkins, and Ihab Seoudi
Chapter 12 Reversible Inhibition of Enzymes for Optical
Detection of Chemical Analytes .................... 315
Brandy J. Johnson, Amanda Oliver, and
H. James Harmon
Chapter 13 Sensing of Biowarfare Agents ...................... 333
A. Bogomolova
Appendix A .................................................... 353
Appendix B .................................................... 363
Index ......................................................... 371
|