Published today (15 October 2014) in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, the study brings scientists closer to
developing electronic noses (e-noses) that closely replicate the sensitive olfactory sense of animals.
Knowing more about how our noses really work, he says, will help researchers better
develop electronic noses that can assess food quality and even sniff out explosives.
Not exact matches
This is precisely what a team of researchers from the Gandia campus of Valencia's Polytechnic University and the La Fe Health Investigation Institute have achieved,
developing a prototype of an
electronic nose that can distinguish between patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
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Electronic nose developed to sniff out colon diseases.»
The researchers
developed a small, breath - diagnostic array based on flexible gold - nanoparticle sensors for use in an «
electronic nose.»