Nanosensors

The Nitrogen Vacancy Center – Watching Magnetic Fields Using Diamonds

When it comes to nanotechnology, we can get a bit lost in the science fiction of it all and overlook some of the advancements to the sensors of our time. From the accelerometer in your phone to the biosensors assisting doctors with diagnostics sensors are some of the most directly applicable ‘rewards’ of nanotechnology. One

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Types of Nanosensors

The applications and types of nanosensors are numerous, so to get an overview it can help to divide them into different categories depending on what they measure and how they work. The main three categories of measurements are physical, chemical, and biological. Furthermore, a useful distinction between the signals of the sensor is electrical vs

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Nanosensors

A sensor is a device that can detect changes in its surroundings such as temperature or the amount of sunlight and convert these changes into a signal[i]. A nanosensor is simply a tiny sensor with dimensions on the nanometer scale which is loosely defined to be below 100 nanometers. This is roughly 1,000 times smaller

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