Recently, Associate Professor Wu Weiwei, Dr. Ren Cong, Dr. Bai Xiaoxia and other young teachers of our school cooperated with other units (Xidian as the lead unit) and jointly published an article,Electronic Noses: from Advanced Materials to Sensors Aided with Data Processingin 2019. The article was selected as one article of 2019 Annual Outstanding Paper Collection (Selecting 20 papers of the whole year) byAdvanced Materials Technologies. It is also the only chosen one in the field of gas sensors.
Artificial olfaction/electronic noses have a great potential in mimicking the human olfactory organ to recognize different types of gases and density. Since its development, it received close attention from scientific and industrial community. It has an application potential in a range of fields, including environment monitoring, disease diagnosis, public security affairs, robotics, agricultural production, food industry, etc. However, differences between increasingly mature artificial vision which depends on wavelength and brightness distribution, artificial hearing which depends on pitch, volume and tone, and artificial touch which depends on strains and stresses, artificial olfaction/electronic noses have enormous challenge in accurately recognizing smell, because the gas to be measured usually consists of different types of gas with different densities Considering current situation and further development, the paper discussed progress in terms of devices of artificial olfaction/electronic noses, as well as application and data processing, pointed out the obstacles and challenges of the field, and put forward further development trends and solutions.
Since 2017, Sensing Laboratory ofSchool of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology started a series of researches on sensing materials and devices, and made several achievements with help fromSchool of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of space, andPioneering Interdiscipline Research Center of Intelligent Sensing. Findings have been published in journals (Chemical Reviews, 2019，119, 22, 11761-11817;Advanced Functional Materials, 2017, 27(40), 1703147;Nano-Micro Letters, 2020, 12, 71;Small, 2020, DOI: 10.1002/Small.202001363;Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2018, 1800232;Advanced Materials Technologies, 2019, 1800488;Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2019,1, 6, 1900066) and some papers are selected as the journal cover.
Relative introduction:
To meet the strategic demand of the national medium and long term development plan andMade in China 2025,Pioneering Interdiscipline Research Center of Intelligent Sensing, is supported bythe advantageous disciplines of Xidian University, relying onSchool of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, andSchool ofPioneering Interdiscipline, closely links with international sensing devices research laboratories. In view of problems of basic science and application technology existing in sensing technology, around the first-class disciplines such as materials science and engineering, electronic science and technology, biomedical and engineering, instrument science and technology, physics and other first-class disciplines, Pioneering Interdiscipline Research Center of Intelligent Sensing makes innovation in the system and mechanism, builds interdisciplinary, international and high-level research team, cultivates innovative talents, enhances the original innovation ability, and improves the overall basic research ability to develop the basic theory and technology research in fields of artificial olfaction and artificial touch involved materials, microelectronics, artificial intelligence, mechanics and optics, and builds itself into a world-class research level basic research institute of intelligent sensing with distinctive interdisciplinary characteristics.
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Link to Outstanding Papers:
https://www.materialsviewschina.com/2020/05/45246/
Link to the paper:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admt.201800488
Link to the news report:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ISgYKH1Vdqz0XWMqXZ0XhQ
