The field of cantilever-based sensing emerged in the mid-1990s and is today a well-known
technology for label-free sensing which holds promise as a technique for cheap, portable …

Resonant micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) with on-chip integrated
excitation and readout components, exhibit exquisite gravimetric sensitivities which have …

Two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (2D COFs) are promising for gas sensing
owing to the large surface area, abundant active sites, and their semiconducting nature …

The detection of organophosphorus (OP) compounds, which are extremely toxic, is a
requirement in many application fields such as food security. Mass-type chemical sensors …

This work reports a bio-inspired synthesis of polydopamine (PDA) nanotubes with a desired
wall thickness and their applications for trace-level formaldehyde sensing. To synthesize …

Aromatic amine such as aniline is one kind of carcinogenic substances that needs to be
detected at low concentration. To sense trace level aniline, high performance sensing …

With oleylamine as a solvent and reducing agent, Au nanoparticles (AuNPs) are grown in
situ on graphene oxide (GO) sheets. Thereafter, a porous-layered stack of AuNPs–GO …

Micromechanical resonant sensor offers many advantages for chemical detection, but it fails
to maintain high quality factor (Q-factor) when working directly in liquid because of the …

Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) is a widely applied classic method for material
characterization. However, the existing TGA method has reached its technical ceiling in …

As one of typical VOCs, xylene is seriously harmful to human health. Nowadays, however,
there is really lack of portable sensing method to directly detect environmental xylene that …