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Carbon Nanotube/Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene Bilayers for Discrimination Between Nonpolar Volatile Organic Compounds of Cancer and Humid Atmospheres

  1. Yael Zilberman1,
  2. Ulrike Tisch1,
  3. Gregory Shuster1,
  4. Wojciech Pisula2,
  5. Xinliang Feng2,
  6. Klaus Müllen2,
  7. Hossam Haick1,*

Article first published online: 1 JUN 2010

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201001275

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Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 22, Issue 38, pages 4317–4320, October 8, 2010

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Zilberman, Y., Tisch, U., Shuster, G., Pisula, W., Feng, X., Müllen, K. and Haick, H. (2010), Carbon Nanotube/Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene Bilayers for Discrimination Between Nonpolar Volatile Organic Compounds of Cancer and Humid Atmospheres. Adv. Mater., 22: 4317–4320. doi: 10.1002/adma.201001275

Author Information

  1. 1

    The Department of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie, Nanotechnology Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000 (Israel) Fax: +972–4-8293087

  2. 2

    Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Postfach 3148, D-55021 Mainz (Germany)

*The Department of Chemical Engineering and Russell Berrie, Nanotechnology Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000 (Israel) Fax: +972–4-8293087.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 1 JUN 2010
  2. Article first published online: 1 JUN 2010
  3. Manuscript Revised: 17 MAY 2010
  4. Manuscript Received: 9 APR 2010

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Keywords:

  • Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronenes;
  • Carbon nanotubes;
  • Sensors;
  • Volatile organic compounds;
  • Cancer
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Cancer detection: The development of a cost-effective, portable and non-invasive diagnostic tool for detecting cancer from exhaled breath requires sensors that discriminate well between polar and nonpolar volatile organic compounds in highly humid atmospheres. Here we show that a chemiresistive bilayer comprised of a dense cap layer of discotic hexa-dodecyl-hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene derivatives (hereby, HBC-C12) and a random network of carbon nanotubes (RN-CNT) as underlayer layer could fulfill these requirements.

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