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Carbon Nanotube-Based Sensors: Fabrication, Characterization, and Implementation highlights the latest research and developments on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their applications in sensors and sensing systems. It offers an overview of CNTs, including their synthesis, functionalization, characterization, and toxicology. It then delves into the fabrication and various applications of CNT-based sensors.
FEATURES
- Defines the significance of different forms of CNT-based sensors synthesized for diverse engineering applications and compares the feasibility of their generation
- Helps readers evaluate different types of fabrication techniques to generate CNTs and their subsequent sensing
- Discusses fabrication of low-cost, efficient CNTs-based sensors that can be used for diverse applications and sheds light on synthesis methods for a range of printing techniques
- Highlights challenges and advances in security-related issues using CNTs-based sensors
This book is aimed at researchers in the fields of materials and electrical engineering who are interested in the development of sensor technology for industrial, biomedical, and related applications.
List of contents
1. Introduction. 2. Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes: Properties and Application. 3. Functionalization and Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes. 4. Toxicology of Carbon Nanotubes. 5. Fabrication of Carbon Nanotubes-Based Sensors. 6. Carbon Nanotubes/Polymer-Based Nanocomposite Sensors. 7. Carbon Nanotubes as Versatile Elements for Multiple Sensory Analysis in Biological Applications. 8. Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis, Properties, Sensing Mechanisms, and Applications in Sensor Technologies. 9. Carbon Nanotubes-Based Sensors for Environmental Applications. 10. CNTs-Based Sensors for Energy Harvesting Applications. 11. A Comparative Study on the Characteristics and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes, Carbon Nanofibres, and Carbon Nanoparticles. 12. Conclusion and Future Work.
About the author
Anindya Nag earned an MS at Massey University, New Zealand, in 2015 and a PhD at Macquarie University, Australia, in 2018. He was a Lecturer at Dongguan University of Technology, China, from February 2019 to August 2020. He also earned postdoctoral fellowships at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and Shandong University, China. He is a Junior Professor at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
Alivia Mukherjee earned a PhD at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 2022, where she was a graduate researcher in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. She is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada.
