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  • Open Access
4 Citations
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Small Acetone Sensor with a Porous Colorimetric Chip for Breath Acetone Detection Using the Flow–Stop Method

  • Yuto Muramatsu,
  • Sota Watanabe,
  • Mahiro Osada,
  • Kohsuke Tajima,
  • Akihiro Karashima and
  • Yasuko Yamada Maruo

Acetone is a well-known biogas involved in lipid metabolism and is considered a potential biomarker for diabetes. However, the conventional detection methods for acetone face the limitations of large size, complex usage, and cross-sensitivity. In thi...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,112 Views
21 Pages

Acetone Sensor Based on FAIMS-MEMS

  • Junna Zhang,
  • Cheng Lei,
  • Ting Liang,
  • Ruifang Liu,
  • Zhujie Zhao,
  • Lei Qi,
  • Abdul Ghaffar and
  • Jijun Xiong

9 December 2021

In this paper, to address the problems of large blood draws, long testing times, and the inability to achieve dynamic detection of invasive testing for diabetes, stemming from the principle that type 1 diabetic patients exhale significantly higher le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
17,605 Views
14 Pages

Synthesis and Analysis of Resorcinol-Acetone Copolymer

  • Ataru Kobayashi and
  • Gen-ichi Konishi

13 January 2009

Synthesis and characterization of resorcinol-acetone copolymer is described. The polymer was prepared by trifluoroacetic acid-catalyzed polymerization of resorcinol with acetone. According to the 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, and MALDI-TOF Mass spectra data, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,361 Views
13 Pages

WS2 Nanorod as a Remarkable Acetone Sensor for Monitoring Work/Public Places

  • Rajneesh Kumar Mishra,
  • Vipin Kumar,
  • Le Gia Trung,
  • Gyu Jin Choi,
  • Jeong Won Ryu,
  • Sagar M. Mane,
  • Jae Cheol Shin,
  • Pushpendra Kumar,
  • Seung Hee Lee and
  • Jin Seog Gwag

8 November 2022

Here, we report the synthesis of the WS2 nanorods (NRs) using an eco-friendly and facile hydrothermal method for an acetone-sensing application. This study explores the acetone gas-sensing characteristics of the WS2 nanorod sensor for 5, 10, and 15 p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
6,151 Views
17 Pages

Acetone Sensing Properties and Mechanism of SnO2 Thick-Films

  • Yanping Chen,
  • Hongwei Qin,
  • Yue Cao,
  • Heng Zhang and
  • Jifan Hu

12 October 2018

In the present work, we investigated the acetone sensing characteristics and mechanism of SnO2 thick-films through experiments and DFT calculations. SnO2 thick film annealed at 600 °C could sensitively detect acetone vapors. At the optimum operat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,737 Views
12 Pages

Home-made Detection Device for a Mixture of Ethanol and Acetone

  • Amnat Reungchaiwat,
  • Teerapol Wongchanapiboon,
  • Saisunee Liawruangrath and
  • Sukon Phanichphant

28 February 2007

A device for the detection and determination of ethanol and acetone wasconstructed, consisting of a packed column, a chamber with a sensor head, 2 dc powersupplies, a multimeter and a computer. A commercially available TGS 822 detector head(Figaro Co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,590 Views
24 Pages

30 September 2024

Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) are an ideal sorbent for magnetic dispersion extraction due to their superparamagnetic properties and developed and active surface. This work aims to use IONPs, obtained by chemical co-precipitation, to purify 100% ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,468 Views
18 Pages

A Microsphere-Based Sensor for Point-of-Care and Non-Invasive Acetone Detection

  • Oscar Osorio Perez,
  • Ngan Anh Nguyen,
  • Landon Denham,
  • Asher Hendricks,
  • Rodrigo E. Dominguez,
  • Eun Ju Jeong,
  • Marcio S. Carvalho,
  • Mateus Lima,
  • Jarrett Eshima and
  • Erica Forzani
  • + 4 authors

3 July 2025

Ketones, which are key biomarkers of fat oxidation, are relevant for metabolic health maintenance and disease development, making continuous monitoring essential. In this study, we introduce a novel colorimetric sensor designed for potential continuo...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,551 Views
13 Pages

27 June 2019

The paper presents the development of a portable gas analyzer prototype for exhaled acetone detection, employing an application-suited gas sensor array and 3D printing technology. The device provides the functionality to monitor exhaled acetone level...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,441 Views
14 Pages

An Ultrahigh Sensitivity Acetone Sensor Enhanced by Light Illumination

  • Heng Zhang,
  • Hongwei Qin,
  • Chengyong Gao and
  • Jifan Hu

17 July 2018

Au:SmFe0.9Zn0.1O3 is synthesized by a sol-gel method and annealed at 750 °C. Through XRD, SEM and XPS analysis methods, the microstructure of the material has been observed. The average particle size is about 50 nm. The sensor shows a high sensit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,912 Views
16 Pages

19 January 2021

The ketogenic diet, while originally thought to treat epilepsy in children, is now used for weight loss due to increasing evidence indicating that fat is burned more rapidly when there is a low carbohydrate intake. This low carbohydrate intake can le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
9,349 Views
15 Pages

A Portable Real-Time Ringdown Breath Acetone Analyzer: Toward Potential Diabetic Screening and Management

  • Chenyu Jiang,
  • Meixiu Sun,
  • Zhennan Wang,
  • Zhuying Chen,
  • Xiaomeng Zhao,
  • Yuan Yuan,
  • Yingxin Li and
  • Chuji Wang

30 July 2016

Breath analysis has been considered a suitable tool to evaluate diseases of the respiratory system and those that involve metabolic changes, such as diabetes. Breath acetone has long been known as a biomarker for diabetes. However, the results from p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
239 Citations
16,341 Views
25 Pages

Nanostructured Metal Oxide-Based Acetone Gas Sensors: A Review

  • Vahid Amiri,
  • Hossein Roshan,
  • Ali Mirzaei,
  • Giovanni Neri and
  • Ahmad I. Ayesh

30 May 2020

Acetone is a well-known volatile organic compound that is widely used in different industrial and domestic areas. However, it can have dangerous effects on human life and health. Thus, the realization of sensitive and selective sensors for recognitio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,052 Views
16 Pages

Tailoring of the Properties of Amorphous Mesoporous Titanosilicates Active in Acetone Condensation

  • Vera R. Bikbaeva,
  • Anna S. Artem’eva,
  • Sergey V. Bubennov,
  • Alexander I. Nikiforov,
  • Viktor Y. Kirsanov,
  • Dmitry V. Serebrennikov,
  • Lubov F. Korzhova,
  • Stanislav G. Karchevsky,
  • Leonard M. Khalilov and
  • Nellia G. Grigoreva
  • + 1 author

12 November 2024

Amorphous mesoporous materials are promising as catalysts for processes involving or forming bulk molecules. In a reaction such as acetone condensation to form mesitylene, an effective catalyst should not only have a developed porous structure but al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,563 Views
13 Pages

Fabrication of a SnO2-Based Acetone Gas Sensor Enhanced by Molecular Imprinting

  • Wenhu Tan,
  • Xiaofan Ruan,
  • Qiuxiang Yu,
  • Zetai Yu and
  • Xintang Huang

26 December 2014

This work presents a new route to design a highly sensitive SnO2–based sensor for acetone gas enhanced by the molecular imprinting technique. Unassisted and acetone-assisted thermal synthesis methods are used to synthesis SnO2 nanomaterials. The pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,931 Views
15 Pages

Fabrication of Polyacrylonitrile UF Membranes by VIPS Method with Acetone as Co-Solvent

  • Alexey Yushkin,
  • Alexey Balynin,
  • Mikhail Efimov,
  • Konstantin Pochivalov,
  • Inna Petrova and
  • Alexey Volkov

For the first time, a systematic study was carried out of the replacement of the low-volatility solvents N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) or dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) with the high-volatility solvent acetone in the casting solution of polyacrylonitrile (P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,443 Views
10 Pages

27 December 2020

Assessment of breath acetone level may be an alternative procedure to evaluate change in fat metabolism. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of insufficient carbohydrate (CHO) intake after sprint exercise on breath acetone...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,938 Views
12 Pages

5 October 2021

The process of electrospinning polymer solutions depends on many entry parameters, with each having a significant impact on the overall process and where complexity prevents the expression of their interplay. However, under the assumption that most p...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1,211 Views
3 Pages

Selectivity Enhancement of an Acetone-Monitoring SPR Sensor: Theoretical Evaluation

  • Gabriel B. M. Fernandes,
  • Villeneve O. Soares,
  • Jefferson L. B. Marques and
  • Cleumar S. Moreira

A numerical investigation of a sensor for acetone monitoring using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is proposed. We evaluate the effects of polyaniline (PANI), graphene, or chitosan acting as a chemisorption binding layer for the selective sensing of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,158 Views
7 Pages

Acetone as Artifact of Analysis in Terpene Samples by HS-GC/MS

  • Sytze Elzinga,
  • Jorge Dominguez-Alonzo,
  • Raquel Keledjian,
  • Brad Douglass and
  • Jeffrey C. Raber

16 September 2022

Cannabis-infused product manufacturers often add terpenes to enhance flavor. Meanwhile, labeling requirements for these same products necessitate testing for residual solvent levels. We have found that heating terpene samples containing an oxygen or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,334 Views
14 Pages

Metal-Exchanged β Zeolites as Catalysts for the Conversion of Acetone to Hydrocarbons

  • Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza,
  • Dolores Esquivel,
  • César Jiménez-Sanchidrián and
  • Francisco J. Romero-Salguero

5 January 2012

Various metal-β zeolites have been synthesized under similar ion-exchange conditions. During the exchange process, the nature and acid strength of the used cations modified the composition and textural properties as well as the Brönsted and Lewis aci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,942 Views
14 Pages

28 December 2021

Acetone released into the atmosphere can adversely affect human health and the environment. The aim of this work was to evaluate the performance of a laboratory-scale biotrickling filter (BTF) with bioball packing material to remove acetone vapor fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,292 Views
15 Pages

Synthesis of TiO2-(B) Nanobelts for Acetone Sensing

  • Gayan W. C. Kumarage,
  • Shasika A. Panamaldeniya,
  • Dileepa C. Maddumage,
  • Abderrahim Moumen,
  • Valentin A. Maraloiu,
  • Catalina G. Mihalcea,
  • Raluca F. Negrea,
  • Buddhika S. Dassanayake,
  • Nanda Gunawardhana and
  • Elisabetta Comini
  • + 2 authors

8 October 2023

Titanium dioxide nanobelts were prepared via the alkali-hydrothermal method for application in chemical gas sensing. The formation process of TiO2-(B) nanobelts and their sensing properties were investigated in detail. FE-SEM was used to study the su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,422 Views
11 Pages

1 September 2018

Isobaric vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) data of the ternary system acetone + chloroform + 1,3-dimethylimidazolium dimethylphosphate ([MMIM][DMP]) or 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium diethylphosphate ([EMIM][DEP]) were obtained at 101.3 kPa. Results indica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
10,698 Views
13 Pages

Highly Selective Gas-Phase Catalytic Hydrogenation of Acetone to Isopropyl Alcohol

  • Abdulrahman A. Al-Rabiah,
  • Ismail Boz,
  • Vagif M. Akhmedov,
  • Mohamed Mokhtar M. Mostafa and
  • Abdulaziz A. Bagabas

17 October 2022

Current industrial synthesis procedures of isopropyl alcohol (IPA), by the direct or indirect hydration of propylene in the gas or liquid phase, suffer from the low conversion of propylene, the requirement for high pressure, and the harmfulness to th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
616 Views
22 Pages

Acetone Sensor Based on a Composite of Calcium Itaconate and Graphene Oxide

  • Igor E. Uflyand,
  • Anastasiya O. Zarubina,
  • Aleksandr A. Shcherbatykh and
  • Vladimir A. Zhinzhilo

The present paper reports the preparation of a nanocomposite thin film consisting of calcium itaconate and graphene oxide (GO). The composite is a black powder consisting of individual shiny prismatic crystals at varying degrees of maturity. The crys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,840 Views
17 Pages

Acetone as Indicator of Lipid Oxidation in Stored Margarine

  • Sarah Fruehwirth,
  • Sandra Egger,
  • Thomas Flecker,
  • Miriam Ressler,
  • Nesrin Firat and
  • Marc Pignitter

Margarine contains a minimum of 80% fat and is therefore prone to lipid oxidation. While lipid oxidation in vegetable oils and o/w emulsions has been thoroughly investigated, studies about the oxidative stability and the identification of potential i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
8,607 Views
10 Pages

Enhanced Acetone Sensing Characteristics of ZnO/Graphene Composites

  • Hao Zhang,
  • Yuan Cen,
  • Yu Du and
  • Shuangchen Ruan

9 November 2016

ZnO/graphene (ZnO-G) hybrid composites are prepared via hydrothermal synthesis with graphite, N-methyl-pyrrolidone (NMP), and Zn(NO3)2·6H2O as the precursors. The characterizations, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analyses (TGA),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,033 Views
14 Pages

Recovery and Reuse of Acetone from Pharmaceutical Industry Waste by Solar Distillation

  • Eva Carina Tarango Brito,
  • Carlos Eduardo Barrera Díaz,
  • Liliana Ivette Ávila Córdoba,
  • Bernardo Antonio Frontana Uribe and
  • Dora Alicia Solís Casados

28 January 2025

Solvents are particularly hazardous among the mixture of pollutants found in the air, as their low vapor pressure allows them to reach the atmosphere, causing damage to ecosystems, and producing secondary deleterious effects on living organisms throu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,304 Views
11 Pages

17 January 2023

Primer is widely used to prepare bonding of chlorinated poly(vinyl chloride) (CPVC) pipe. The study examined the influences of primer and its major component, acetone, on CPVC’s mechanical properties. Two types of CPVC product, sheet and pipe,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,620 Views
20 Pages

An Experimental Study on the Potential Usage of Acetone as an Oxygenate Additive in PFI SI Engines

  • Lei Meng,
  • Chunnian Zeng,
  • Yuqiang Li,
  • Karthik Nithyanandan,
  • Timothy H. Lee and
  • Chia-fon Lee

31 March 2016

To face the challenges of fossil fuel shortage and stringent emission norms, there is growing interest in the potential usage of alternative fuels such as bio-ethanol and bio-butanol in internal combustion engines. More recently, Acetone–Butanol–Etha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,499 Views
12 Pages

Acetone and Toluene Gas Sensing by WO3: Focusing on the Selectivity from First Principle Calculations

  • Mario Italo Trioni,
  • Fausto Cargnoni,
  • Stefano Americo,
  • Eleonora Pargoletti,
  • Gian Luca Chiarello and
  • Giuseppe Cappelletti

5 August 2022

Sensitivity and selectivity are the two major parameters that should be optimized in chemiresistive devices with boosted performances towards Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). Notwithstanding a plethora of metal oxides/VOCs combinations that have be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,702 Views
13 Pages

UV Light Illumination Can Improve the Sensing Properties of LaFeO3 to Acetone Vapor

  • Heng Zhang,
  • Hongwei Qin,
  • Chengyong Gao,
  • Guangjun Zhou,
  • Yanping Chen and
  • Jifan Hu

21 June 2018

The synthesized LaFeO3 nanocrystalline sensor powders show positive response to sensing acetone vapor at 200 °C. The responses to acetone vapor (at 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10 ppm) are 1.18, 1.22, 1.89, 3.2 and 7.83. To make the sensor operate at a lower op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,566 Views
18 Pages

15 October 2021

Since both ethanol and acetone are the main components in many alternative fuels, research on the burning characteristics of ethanol-acetone blends is important to understand the combustion phenomena of these alternative fuels. In the present study,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,303 Views
16 Pages

Enhancing the TiO2-Ag Photocatalytic Efficiency by Acetone in the Dye Removal from Wastewater

  • Catalina Nutescu Duduman,
  • Consuelo Gómez de Castro,
  • Gabriela Antoaneta Apostolescu,
  • Gabriela Ciobanu,
  • Doina Lutic,
  • Lidia Favier and
  • Maria Harja

31 August 2022

TiO2 nanoparticles synthesized by the sol-gel method and doped with Ag were characterized by SEM, EDAX, FTIR, BET, XRD and TEM, then tested in the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue (MB) under UV irradiation. The experimental results indica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,492 Views
12 Pages

An Efficient and Economical N-Glycome Sample Preparation Using Acetone Precipitation

  • Junyao Wang,
  • Wenjing Peng,
  • Mojibola Fowowe,
  • Oluwatosin Daramola and
  • Yehia Mechref

17 December 2022

Due to the critical role of the glycome in organisms and its close connections with various diseases, much time and effort have been dedicated to glycomics-related studies in the past decade. To achieve accurate and reliable identification and quanti...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,352 Views
13 Pages

The Formation of 2,2,4-Trimethyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-1,5-Benzodiazepine from 1,2-Diaminobenzene in the Presence of Acetone

  • Felix Odame,
  • Phumelele Kleyi,
  • Eric Hosten,
  • Richard Betz,
  • Kevin Lobb and
  • Zenixole Tshentu

19 November 2013

In an attempt to synthesize a 2-substituted benzimidazole from the reaction of o-phenylenediamine and isophthalic acid in the presence of acetone and ethanol under microwave irradiation, a salt of the isophthalate ion and 2,2,4-trimethyl-2,3-dihydro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,091 Views
14 Pages

A Bio-Fluorometric Acetone Gas Imaging System for the Dynamic Analysis of Lipid Metabolism in Human Breath

  • Takahiro Arakawa,
  • Naoki Mizukoshi,
  • Kenta Iitani,
  • Koji Toma and
  • Kohji Mitsubayashi

We constructed an imaging system to measure the concentration of acetone gas by acetone reduction using secondary alcohol dehydrogenase (S-ADH). Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) was used as an electron donor, and acetone was imaged by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,624 Views
11 Pages

Lignocelluloses-Based Furan-Acetone Adducts as Wood Adhesives for Plywood Production

  • Lizhen Huang,
  • Wenchang Sun,
  • Li Shuai,
  • Xiaolin Luo and
  • Jing Liu

16 February 2023

Plywood is made of wood veneers that are bonded with adhesives such as urea-formaldehyde, phenol-formaldehyde and melamine-formaldehyde resins. The plywood made from formaldehyde-based adhesives not only releases formaldehyde but also relies on fossi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
164 Citations
11,955 Views
14 Pages

16 July 2018

Measurement of blood-borne volatile organic compounds (VOCs) occurring in human exhaled breath as a result of metabolic changes or pathological disorders is a promising tool for noninvasive medical diagnosis, such as exhaled acetone measurements in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,105 Views
13 Pages

17 July 2014

This study investigates the fabrication and characterization of an acetone microsensor with a ring oscillator circuit using the commercial 0.18 μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. The acetone microsensor contains a sensitive ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,367 Views
11 Pages

A CO2 laser has the advantages of being high in power and having many laser lines in the 9–11 µm infrared region. Thus, a CO2 laser photoacoustic spectrometer (PAS) can have a multi-component measurement capability for many gas compounds...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,863 Views
12 Pages

Bismuth-Based Metal–Organic Framework as a Chemiresistive Sensor for Acetone Gas Detection

  • Ashraf Ali,
  • Yaser E. Greish,
  • Reem H. Alzard,
  • Lamia A. Siddig,
  • Ahmed Alzamly,
  • Naser Qamhieh and
  • Saleh T. Mahmoud

28 November 2023

Analyzing acetone in the exhaled breath as a biomarker has proved to be a non-invasive method to detect diabetes in humans with good accuracy. In this work, a Bi-gallate MOF doped into a chitosan (CS) matrix containing an ionic liquid (IL) was fabric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,761 Views
17 Pages

10 October 2018

Electrochemical hydrogenation (ECH) of acetone is a relatively new method to produce isopropanol. It provides an alternative way of upgrading bio-fuels with less energy consumption and chemical waste as compared to conventional methods. In this paper...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
217 Views
8 Pages

Printable Chemoresistive Sensor Based on PrFeTiO5 Solid Solution for Acetone Detection

  • Danial Ahmed,
  • Elena Spagnoli,
  • Adil Chakir,
  • Maura Mancinelli,
  • Matteo Ferroni,
  • Boubker Mehdaoui,
  • Abdeslam El Bouari and
  • Barbara Fabbri

7 November 2025

Acetone necessitates reliable detection for the sake of both industrial and environmental safety. Metal oxides are widely used as functional materials for the development of gas sensors because techniques like nanostructure modification, doping, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,651 Views
17 Pages

Acetone Vapor-Sensing Properties of Chitosan-Polyethylene Glycol Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Technique

  • Fahad Usman,
  • John Ojur Dennis,
  • E. M. Mkawi,
  • Yas Al-Hadeethi,
  • Fabrice Meriaudeau,
  • Yap Wing Fen,
  • Amir Reza Sadrolhosseini,
  • Thomas L. Ferrell,
  • Ahmed Alsadig and
  • Abdelmoneim Sulieman

4 November 2020

To non-invasively monitor and screen for diabetes in patients, there is need to detect low concentration of acetone vapor in the range from 1.8 ppm to 5 ppm, which is the concentration range of acetone vapor in diabetic patients. This work presents a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,266 Views
15 Pages

An Experimental and a Kinetic Modelling Study of Ethanol/Acetone/Ethyl Acetate Mixtures

  • Yangxun Liu,
  • Weinan Liu,
  • Huihong Liao,
  • Hasier Ashan,
  • Wenhua Zhou and
  • Cangsu Xu

20 April 2022

With the world’s energy resources decreasing, ethanol/acetone/ethyl acetate mixed fuel has the potential as a fossil fuel alternative or oxygenated fuel additive. In this work, the burning characteristics of ethanol/acetone/ethyl acetate mixed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,621 Views
10 Pages

20 October 2022

The acetone-sensing performance of BiFeO3 is related to structural phase transformation, morphology and band gap energy which can be modulated by rare-earth ions doping. In this work, Bi1−xErxFeO3 nanoparticles with different amounts of Er dopi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,975 Views
9 Pages

Influence of Ethanol on Breath Acetone Measurements Using an External Cavity Quantum Cascade Laser

  • Raymund Centeno,
  • Julien Mandon,
  • Frans J. M. Harren and
  • Simona M. Cristescu

Broadly tunable external cavity quantum cascade lasers (EC-QCLs) in combination with off-axis integrated cavity enhanced spectroscopy (OA-ICOS) provide high molecular gas sensitivity and selectivity. We used an EC-QCL in the region of 1150–1300 cm−1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,346 Views
12 Pages

28 October 2020

A novel approach was proposed to increase the compactness, shorten the preparation period, and reduce the preparation cost by introducing acetone to optimize the polycarbosilane impregnation process. The porosity in internally derived SiC ceramics de...

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