TY - GEN
T1 - Molecules with multiple personalities
T2 - 35 Years of Chemical Sensors - An Honorary Symposium for Professor Jiri Janata's 70th Birthday Celebration - 215th ECS Meeting
AU - Benito-Lopez, F.
AU - Byrne, R.
AU - Wu, Y.
AU - Nolan, L.
AU - Kim, J.
AU - Lau, K. T.
AU - Wallace, G. G.
AU - Diamond, D.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Worldwide, the demand for sensing devices that can conform with the requirements of large-scale wireless sensor network (WSN) deployments is rising exponentially. Typically, sensors should be very low cost, low power (essentially self-sustaining), yet very rugged and reliable. At present, functioning WSN deployments involve physical transducers only, such as thermistors, accelerometers, photodetectors, or flow meters, to monitor quantities like temperature, movement, light level and liquid level/flow. Remote, widely distributed monitoring of molecular targets remains relatively unexplored, except in the case of targets that can be detected directly using 'non-contact' techniques like spectroscopy. This paper will address the issues inhibiting the close integration of chemical sensing with WSNs and suggest strategies based on fundamental materials science that may offer routes to new sensing surfaces that can switch between different modes of behaviour (e.g. active-passive, expand-contract).
AB - Worldwide, the demand for sensing devices that can conform with the requirements of large-scale wireless sensor network (WSN) deployments is rising exponentially. Typically, sensors should be very low cost, low power (essentially self-sustaining), yet very rugged and reliable. At present, functioning WSN deployments involve physical transducers only, such as thermistors, accelerometers, photodetectors, or flow meters, to monitor quantities like temperature, movement, light level and liquid level/flow. Remote, widely distributed monitoring of molecular targets remains relatively unexplored, except in the case of targets that can be detected directly using 'non-contact' techniques like spectroscopy. This paper will address the issues inhibiting the close integration of chemical sensing with WSNs and suggest strategies based on fundamental materials science that may offer routes to new sensing surfaces that can switch between different modes of behaviour (e.g. active-passive, expand-contract).
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=76749142615&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1149/1.3118553
DO - 10.1149/1.3118553
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:76749142615
SN - 9781566777148
T3 - ECS Transactions
SP - 199
EP - 210
BT - ECS Transactions - 35 Years of Chemical Sensors - An Honorary Symposium for Professor Jiri Janata's 70th Birthday Celebration
PB - Electrochemical Society Inc.
Y2 - 24 May 2009 through 29 May 2009
ER -