Electronic Nose Created to Detect Skin Vapors (IMAGE)

Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

Electronic Nose Created to Detect Skin Vapors

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The functioning and devices of the "electronic nose": the vapors emitted by the hand are ionized by an electrospray and their composition analyzed in real time using mass spectrometry.

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Fernández de la Mora et al./SINC

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