Ceramic Chemical Sensors An Overview

Some porous electrodes require two mode distributions of pore sizes.

Ceramic chemical sensors an overview.

The general bibliography on chemical sensing contains a more complete exposition this chapter develops a taxonomy for this broad sensor class describes some promising application areas e g the detection of toxic chemicals in the environment and highlights the key materials challenges. Many electrodes used in electro chemical devices including gas purifiers gas sensors fuel cells and chemical analyzers are porous ceramics. Electrostatic potential drops across interfaces caused by the exchange of ions together with electrons may be used in various ways to measure the concentration of chemical species. Small pores are for the electro chemical reactions while large ones are for flow paths of reactants.

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