TY  - JOUR
A1  - Iken, Heiko
A1  - Kirsanov, D.
A1  - Legin, A.
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
T1  - Novel Thin-Film Polymeric Materials for the Detection of Heavy Metals
JF  - Procedia Engineering
N2  - A variety of transition metals, e.g., copper, zinc, cadmium, lead, etc. are widely used in industry as components for wires, coatings, alloys, batteries, paints and so on. The inevitable presence of transition metals in industrial processes implies the ambition of developing a proper analytical technique for their adequate monitoring. Most of these elements, especially lead and cadmium, are acutely toxic for biological organisms. Quantitative determination of these metals at low activity levels in different environmental and industrial samples is therefore a vital task. A promising approach to achieve an at-side or on-line monitoring on a miniaturized and cost efficient way is the combination of a common potentiometric sensor array with heavy metal-sensitive thin-film materials, like chalcogenide glasses and polymeric materials, respectively.
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2012.09.148
SN  - 1877-7058
N1  - Part of special issue "26th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers, EUROSENSOR 2012"
IS  - 47
SP  - 322
EP  - 325
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -