Feasibility of Plastic Electronic Sensors for Volatile Organic Compound Detection Acronym: PEVOCs

塑料电子是一种极具成本效益的电子元件制造路线，在PEVOC项目中，它将用于生产一系列敏感的化学传感器，旨在检测和测量挥发性有机化合物或VOC。这些化学物质构成了我们用鼻子探测到的气味，塑料电子传感器将能够探测到这些化学物质，并将传感器的反应用于疾病诊断。该项目的目的是：1）证明使用大规模生产降低每个传感器的成本; 2）测试这些塑料电子传感器检测VOC及其混合物的可行性。然后将对细菌培养物等生物样本进行采样，以测试传感器是否能够识别细菌种类。该项目将于2013年12月10日在伦敦举行的协作国家活动中制作一个演示单元，展示传感器的工作情况。

Plastic electronics is an extremely cost effective route for manufacture of electrical components and in the PEVOCs project, it is the route that will be used to produce a range of sensitive chemical sensors that are designed to detect and measure volatile organic compounds or VOCs. These are chemicals that make up the smells we detect with our noses and the plastic electronic sensors will be able to detect these and use the sensor responses in the diagnosis of diseases. The aims of the project are 1) to demonstrate reduction of cost per sensor using mass production and 2) to test the feasibility of these plastic electronic sensors to detect VOCs and mixtures of the same. Then biological samples such as bacterial cultures will be sampled to test if the sensors will be capable of identifying bacterial species. The project will produce a demonstration unit to show the sensors working at the Collaboration Nation event being held in London on 10th December 2013.