Deoxynivalenol and Zearalenone—Synergistic or Antagonistic Agri-Food Chain Co-Contaminants?
Toxins, 2021 Deoxynivalenol (DON) and Zearalenone (ZEN) are two commonly co-occurring mycotoxins produced by members of the genus Fusarium. As important food chain contaminants, these can adversely affect both human and animal health.
Asmita Thapa +3 more
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Glucose Sensing for Diabetes Monitoring: Recent Developments
Sensors, 2017 This review highlights recent advances towards non-invasive and continuous glucose monitoring devices, with a particular focus placed on monitoring glucose concentrations in alternative physiological fluids to blood.
Danielle Bruen +3 more
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Investigation of Polymer–Plasticizer Blends as SH-SAW Sensor Coatings for Detection of Benzene in Water with High Sensitivity and Long-Term Stability [PDF]
, 2016 We report the first-ever direct detection of benzene in water at concentrations below 100 ppb (parts per billion) using acoustic wave (specifically, shear-horizontal surface acoustic wave, SH-SAW) sensors with plasticized polymer coatings.
Ballantine D. S. +6 more
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A pillar-shaped antifuse-based silicon chemical sensor and actuator [PDF]
, 2007 We designed a silicon-processing compatible, simple, and cheap device operating at a power down to sub- W. It has a pillar-shaped structure with a nanoscopic (10–100 nm in size) conductive link (the so-called antifuse) created between two electrodes ...
Holleman, J. +2 more
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An Investigation of Stability and Species and Strain-Level Specificity in Bacterial Volatilomes
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Microbial volatilomics is a rapidly growing field of study and has shown great potential for applications in food, farming, and clinical sectors in the future.
Shane Fitzgerald +2 more
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Designing multifunctional chemical sensors using Ni and Cu doped carbon nanotubes [PDF]
, 2010 We demonstrate a "bottom up" approach to the computational design of a multifunctional chemical sensor. General techniques are employed for describing the adsorption coverage and resistance properties of the sensor based on density functional theory (DFT)
Arnold +36 more
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Stimuli-Controlled Manipulation of Synthetic Micrometre-Sized Vehicles for Bio-Inspired Fluidics
Proceedings, 2017 Controlled movement in fluids is essential to the function of living systems. The desire of [...]
Larisa Florea +3 more
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Bode Phase Angle Signaling of a TB Disease Biomarker
Molecules, 2023 Tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide burden whose total control and eradication remains a challenge due to factors including false positive/negative diagnoses associated with the poor sensitivity of the current diagnostics in immune-compromised and post ...
Unathi Sidwaba +5 more
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A Low-Cost Fluorescent Sensor for pCO2 Measurements
Chemosensors, 2014 Global warming is believed to be caused by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases (mostly CO2) discharged into the environment by human activity. In addition to an increase in environmental temperature, an increased CO2 level has also led to ocean ...
Xudong Ge +4 more
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Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices, 2023 Kesterite materials show excellent optical and semiconductive properties for use as p–type absorber layer in photovoltaic (PV) applications, but they have a high open circuit voltage deficit (Voc,def) due to high antisite defect and secondary phase ...
Kelechi C. Nwambaekwe +2 more
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