Polymers in Sensors - Theory and Practice

Covering the latest developments, this book examines applications of polymers in sensing technology and looks at a wide variety of sensor applications, including biomedical sensors, gas sensing in process industries, and fiber optic senses.

"This American Chemical Society (ACS) compilation . . . comprises 238 pages. The twenty three chapters cover four sections: Diagnostics and Biosensors, Gas Sensors, Ion Selective Electrodes and Polymer-based Sensors and Fiber Optics. The technology oriented book . . . is intended for chemists, chemical engineers as well as biological and material scientists. . . . The subject index is extensive and useful with the majority of the chapters containing a modest level of up-to-date references. . . . Overall the book is well prepared and edited and represents the current state of development. It integrates scientific fundamentals and product based discussions extremely well. Recommended for industrial and academic libraries."--Polymer News

"From a symposium of the August 1996 American Chemical Society meeting (Orlando, Florida), 23 papers cover diagnostics and biosensors, gas sensors and their applications, ion-selective electrodes and polymer-based sensors and biosensors, and fiber optic sensors. Applications are in medicine, food, agriculture, and environmental and industrial monitoring. Of interest to chemists, biochemists, chemical engineers, process engineers, polymer scientists, and materials scientists."--SciTech Book News

"The field of sensing technology covers a vast area of expertise and application in various arenas. The sensor is a logical element in the information-acquisition chain . . . The rapid growth in technology and its application has created a major market for various kinds of sensing devices to maintain the quality of the final product and simultaneously to increase the yield. Sensors find wide applications in medical, food, agricultural, environmental, and industrial monitoring. . . . The chapters cover a wide range of sensors used in the chemical and related industries. [They] are divided into four sections: diagnostics and biosensors, gas sensors and their applications, ISE and polymer-based sensors and biosensors, and fiber-optic sensors. The book should be useful to chemists, biochemists, chemical engineers, process engineers, polymer scientists, and materials scientists who seek information on gas sensors--their chemistry and their limitations."--Plastics Engineering