Chapter 14. Nanotechnology-Enabled Sensors: Possibilities, Realities, and Diverse Applications
David J. Nagel and Sharon Smith
Whether you are a producer or a user of sensors, your business will likely be impacted by current and future developments in nanotechnology. Emerging nanotechnologies offer an unprecedented promise for sensors: smaller size and weight, lower power requirements, more sensitivity, and more specificity, to name a few.
This chapter surveys both the promise and the limitations of the new sensors that are enabled by technologies on the scale of nanometers (one-thousandth of a micrometer). Nanosensors and nano-enabled sensors have applications in a wide variety of industries, including transportation, communications, building and ...
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