Sniffing Out A Better Chemical Sensor
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 21:14
in Physics & Chemistry
Marrying a sensitive detector technology capable of distinguishing hundreds of different chemical compounds with a pattern-recognition module that mimics the way animals recognize odors, researchers have created a new approach for 'electronic noses' that is more adept than conventional methodologies at recognizing molecular features even for chemicals it has not been trained to detect.