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Chemical Nanosensors
9.1 Introduction
How is a chemical nanosensor dened? A chemical nanosensor is an electronic
device, consisting of a transducer and a sensitive element whose operation
relies on at least one of the physical and chemical properties characteristic of
the nanostate (Francia et al. 2009).
What distinguishes a chemical nanosensor from other chemical sensors?
Basically, the operation of a chemical nanosensor resembles any other chem-
ical sensor involving charge transference between molecules and a sensitive
material, thereby producing an electrical and/or optical signal correlated
to the kind and number of molecu ...