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Chemistry lab develops electronic toxic gas sensor
By
Paulomi Rao
| March 30, 2017
Using objects such as yellow wooden pencils and Shrinky Dinks, a child’s plastic toy that shrinks in size after being baked in an oven, chemistry professor Katherine Mirica and her team are developing a unique approach to build a portable and efficient electronic “nose,” a device to help detect toxic gases and environmental pollutants in the air and human bodies. An expert on nanomaterials, Mirica found in previous work that there was no single technology available to detect and monitor the chemical identity of gases harmful to the environment or humans.
