MICS: Innovative functional materials and associated technologies for development of new and improved chemical sensors

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 00.0344

Key words (English)

Chemical sensors; biosensors; food quality control; electronic tongue; electronic nose; Industrial Manufacture; Materials Technology

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: G5RD-2000-00327

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.3.8 Generic R&D activities

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
ETH Zürich
Zentrum für Chemische Sensoren/Biosensoren
ETH-Technopark

Partners and International Organizations (English)

Coordinator: Alpha Mos SA (F)

Abstract (English)

Today there is a lack of easy to use, rapid & reliable tools able to characterise test and smell of industrial products dedicated to human consumption. Human sensory panels: it is highly expensive, time-consuming & suffers from lack of objectivity and reproducibility. Existing gas sensors arrays or 'electronic noses ': due to poor diversity in sensors materials existing gas sensors are non-selective, and only the gas phase of products is analysed. The project aims to develop innovative functional materials and associated technologies to design liquid sensors array and a new generation of gas sensors array with improved selectivity and sensitivity. Combination of liquid sensors array and new generation of gas sensors array will allow measurements of a sample in liquid and gas phases. Thus cross-sensitive liquid and gas-sensor arrays will enable a complete, fast and reliable analysis of a product in terms of taste& smell.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 00.0344