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Electrochemical Sensors: Practical Approaches

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The design and manufacturing of sensors is an important issue for both fields, sensors research and application. For commercialization sensors need to be of constant, reproducible quality and characteristics which are of particular interest for mass-produced one-shot sensors. Apart from these requirements a sufficiently long shelf-lifetime is necessary in order to guarantee the logistic supply with the devices. Sensors research starts usually with laboratory-made or commercially available simple electrodes which are tailored and modified according to the needs and intentions. An important aspect is the miniaturization of sensing devices, which can be achieved by either a diminishing of the dimension of macrosensors or by new concepts of placing micro- and nanosized systems directly on semiconductors and integrating them in the electronic circuits on chips, such as SoC (system on a chip, lab on a chip) and μTAS (micro total analytical system) approaches. In such cases, combination with microsystems and micromachines, also known as MEMS or MOEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems, micro-optoelectro-mechanical systems), allows the realization of mechanical tasks in more complex analytical approaches, such as pumping, and valve-splitting, in a single microsized chip. Thus, also theoretical considerations concerning micro- and ultramicro-electrodes gain increasing importance. In the chapter here a brief overview is given on the basic transducers and on preparation techniques to create electrochemical sensors. Due to the huge amount of literature in this field, only characteristic examples and review articles are cited.

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Samphao, A., Kalcher, K. (2014). Electrochemical Sensors: Practical Approaches. In: Moretto, L., Kalcher, K. (eds) Environmental Analysis by Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0676-5_18

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