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Presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary review of the major cutting-edge technology research areas--especially those on new materials and methods as well as advanced structures and properties--for various sensor and detection devices
The development of sensors and detectors at macroscopic or nanometric scale is the driving force stimulating research in sensing materials and technology for accurate detection in solid, liquid, or gas phases; contact or non-contact configurations; or multiple sensing. The emphasis on reduced-scale detection techniques requires the use of new materials and methods. These techniques offer appealing perspectives given by spin crossover organic, inorganic, and composite materials that could be unique for sensor fabrication. The influence of the length, composition, and conformation structure of materials on their properties, and the possibility of adjusting sensing properties by doping or adding the side-groups, are indicative of the starting point of multifarious sensing. The role of intermolecular interactions, polymer and ordered phase formation, as well as behavior under pressure and magnetic and electric fields are also important facts for processing ultra-sensing materials.
The 15 chapters written by senior researchers in Advanced Sensor and Detection Materials cover all these subjects and key features under three foci: 1) principals and perspectives, 2) new materials and methods, and 3) advanced structures and properties for various sensor devices.
List of contents
Preface xv
Part 1: Principals and Prospective 1
1 Advances in Sensors? Nanotechnology 3
Ida Tiwari and Manorama Singh
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 What is Nanotechnology? 4
1.3 Significance of Nanotechnology 5
1.4 Synthesis of Nanostructure 5
1.5 Advancements in Sensors' Research Based on Nanotechnology 5
1.6 Use of Nanoparticles 7
1.7 Use of Nanowires and Nanotubes 8
1.8 Use of Porous Silicon 11
1.9 Use of Self-Assembled Nanostructures 12
1.10 Receptor-Ligand Nanoarrays 12
1.11 Characterization of Nanostructures and Nanomaterials 13
1.12 Commercialization Efforts 14
1.13 Future Perspectives 14
References 15
2 Construction of Nanostructures: A Basic Concept Synthesis and Their Applications 19
Rizwan Wahab, Farheen Khan, Nagendra K. Kaushik, Javed Musarrat and Abdulaziz A.Al-Khedhairy
2.1 Introduction 20
2.2 Formation of Zinc Oxide Quantum Dots (ZnO-QDs) and Their Applications 24
2.3 Needle-Shaped Zinc Oxide Nanostructures and Their Growth Mechanism 30
2.4 Flower-Shaped Zinc Oxide Nanostructures and Their Growth Mechanism 37
2.5 Construction of Mixed Shaped Zinc Oxide Nanostructures and Their Growth Mechanicsm 47
2.6 Summary and Future Directions 56
References 57
3 The Role of the Shape in the Design of New Nanoparticles 61
G. Mayeli Estrada-Villegas and Emilio Bucio
3.1 Introduction 62
3.2 The Importance of Shape as Nanocarries 63
3.3 Influence of Shape on Biological Process 65
3.4 Different Shapes of Polymeric Nanoparticles 67
3.5 Different Shapes of Non-Polymeric Nanoparticles 71
3.6 Different Shapes of Polymeric Nanoparticles: Examples 74
3.7 Another Type of Nanoparticles 76
Acknowledgments 80
References 80
4 Molecularly Imprinted Polymer as Advanced Material for Development of Enantioselective Sensing Devices 87
Mahavir Prasad Tiwari and Bhim Bali Prasad
4.1 Introduction 88
4.2 Molecularly Imprinted Chiral Polymers 90
4.3 MIP-Based Chiral Sensing Devices 91
4.4 Conclusion 105
References 105
5 Role of Microwave Sintering in the Preparation of Ferrites for High Frequency Applications 111
S. Bharadwaj and S.R. Murthy
5.1 Microwaves in General 112
5.2 Microwave-Material Interactions 114
5.3 Microwave Sintering 115
5.4 Microwave Equipment 118
5.5 Kitchen Microwave Oven Basic Principle 122
5.6 Microwave Sintering of Ferrites 126
5.7 Microwave Sintering of Garnets 137
5.8 Microwave Sintering of Nanocomposites 138
References 140
Part 2: New Materials and Methods 147
6 Mesoporous Silica: Making "Sense" of Sensors 149
Surender Duhan and Vijay K. Tomer
6.1 Introduction to Sensors 150
6.2 Fundamentals of Humidity Sensors 153
6.3 Types of Humidity Sensors 154
6.4 Humidity Sensing Materials 156
6.5 Issues with Traditional Materials in Sensing Technology 158
6.6 Introduction to Mesoporous Silica 159
6.7 M41S Materials 160
6.8 SBA Materials 162
6.9 Structure of SBA-15 164
6.10 Structure Directing Agents of SBA-15 165
6.11 Factors Affecting Structural Properties and Morphology of SBA-15 169
6.12 Modification of Mesoporous Silica 174
6.13 Characterization Techniques for Mesoporous Materials 177
6.14 Humidity Sensing of SBA-15 184
6.15 Extended Family of Mesoporous Silica 185
About the author
Ashutosh Tiwari is an Associate Professor at the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, Linköping University, Sweden; Editor-in-Chief,
Advanced Materials Letters and
Advanced Materials Reviews; Secretary General, International Association of Advanced Materials; a materials chemist and also a docent in applied physics at Linköping University, Sweden. He has published more than 350 articles, patents, and conference proceedings in the field of materials science and technology and has edited/authored about twenty books on the advanced state-of-the-art of materials science. He is a founding member of the Advanced Materials World Congress and the Indian Materials Congress.
Mustafa M. Demir received his PhD degree from Sabanc¿ University, Turkey, in 2004. From 2004 to 2007 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany. He then moved to Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, where he is now Chairman of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Summary
The development of sensors at macroscopic or nanometric scales in solid, liquid, or gas phases, contact or noncontact configurations, has driven the research of sensor & detection materials and technology into high gear.
