News tagged with gas sensor
Portable and precise gas sensor could monitor pollution and detect disease
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the air, it is a serious pollutant. In the body, it plays a role in heart rate, blood flow, nerve signals and immune function.
Novel temperature calibration improves NIST microhotplate technology
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new calibration technique that will improve the reliability and stability of one of NIST's most versatile technologies, the ...
Icy exposure creates armored polymer high tech foams
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists and engineers at the University of Warwick have found that exposing particular mixtures of polymer particles and other materials to sudden freeze-drying can create a high-tech armored foam that could ...
Breath or urine analysis may detect cancer, diabetes
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A future sensor may take away a patient's breath while simultaneously determining whether the patient has breast cancer, lung cancer, diabetes or asthma. A University of Missouri researcher is developing ...
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New Gas Sensor Based on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 27, 2009 |
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Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials staff in the Nanofabrication & Devices Group together with collaborative users from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have fabricated a miniaturized gas sensor using ...
New gas sensors for monitoring carbon dioxide sinks
May 08, 2008 |
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A novel gas sensor system makes it possible to monitor large areas cost-effectively the first time. The patented gas sensor is based on the principle of diffusion, according to which certain gases pass through ...
Super Sensitive Gas Detector Goes Down the Nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 13, 2009 |
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When cells are under stress, they blow off steam by releasing minute amounts of nitrogen oxides and other toxic gases. In a recent paper,* researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
'Powerhouses' from living cells power new explosives detector
Nov 17, 2008 |
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Researchers in Missouri have borrowed the technology that living cells use to produce energy to develop a tiny, self-powered sensor for rapid detection of hidden explosives. The experimental sensor, about the size of a postage ...
New detector uses nanotubes to sense deadly gases
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 06, 2008 |
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Using carbon nanotubes, MIT chemical engineers have built the most sensitive electronic detector yet for sensing deadly gases such as the nerve agent sarin.
Tiny 'gas-flow' sensor has industrial, environmental applications
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Researchers at Purdue University have shown how to create a new class of tiny sensors for applications ranging from environmental protection to pharmaceutical preservation.
Specialized polymer used to detect nerve agents, toxic chemicals for air monitoring in emergencies
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique polymer that allows sensors to detect nerve agents and other toxic industrial chemicals in the air is now available to companies developing chemical detectors for emergency personnel, ...
Underwater robot with a sense of touch
May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Maintenance of offshore drilling rigs or underwater cables, taking samples of sediment - underwater robots perform a variety of deep-sea tasks. Research scientists now aim to equip robots ...
'NMR on a chip' features magnetic mini-sensor
Feb 19, 2008 |
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A super-sensitive mini-sensor developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology can detect nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in tiny samples of fluids flowing through a novel microchip. The prototype ...
New Nano-Sensor Can Detect Asthma Symptoms
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 23, 2007 |
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A sensor developed at the University of Pittsburgh could strip the element of surprise from some asthma attacks by detecting one before its onset. Fitted in a hand-held device, the tiny sensor provides people who have asthma ...
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