Chemoresistive Sensor Readout Circuit Design for Detecting Gases with Slow Response Time Characteristics.

Based on an analysis of the signal characteristics of gas sensors, this work presents a chemoresistive sensor readout circuit design for detecting gases with slow response time characteristics. The proposed readout circuit directly generates a reference voltage corresponding to the initial value of the gas sensor and extracts only the amount of gas concentration change in the sensor. Because the proposed readout circuit can adaptively regenerate the suitable reference voltage under various changing ambient conditions, it can alleviate the variation in output values at the same gas concentration caused by non-uniformities among gas sensors.

Investigation of Exhaled Breath Samples from Patients with Alzheimer's Disease Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and an Exhaled Breath Sensor System.

Exhaled breath is a body secretion, and the sampling process of this is simple and cost effective. It can be non-invasively collected for diagnostic procedures. Variations in the chemical composition of exhaled breath resulting from gaseous exchange in the extensive capillary network of the body are proposed to be associated with pathophysiological changes.

Efficient exfoliation of MoS2 with volatile solvents and their application for humidity sensor.

Liquid-phase exfoliation is likely to be feasible for practical fabrication of few-layer MoS2 nanosheets in large quantities. However, this method generally involves the organic solvents with high boiling point; new strategy using low-boiling-point solvents to obtain high MoS2 concentration is still highly required. In this study, using the strategy of Hansen solubility parameters (HSP), a method based on exfoliation of MoS2 in chloroform/acetonitrile mixtures is demonstrated to fabricate high concentration MoS2 nanosheet solution.