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. 1995 Mar 28;92(7):2652-6.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.7.2652.

A chemically diverse conducting polymer-based "electronic nose"

M S Freund  1 , N S Lewis
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A chemically diverse conducting polymer-based "electronic nose"

M S Freund et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .

Abstract

We describe a method for generating a variety of chemically diverse broadly responsive low-power vapor sensors. The chemical polymerization of pyrrole in the presence of plasticizers has yielded conducting organic polymer films whose resistivities are sensitive to the identity and concentration of various vapors in air. An array of such sensing elements produced a chemically reversible diagnostic pattern of electrical resistance changes upon exposure to different odorants. Principal component analysis has demonstrated that such sensors can identify and quantify different airborne organic solvents and can yield information on the components of gas mixtures.

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