Review on Electronic Nose (e-Nose) Technology

1. Introduction

Chemical/gas sensors

Need of sensors

Applications

Sensing and sensors properties

Detection methods (electrical and non-electrical)

Chemi-resitive method

Sensing mechanism

Drawbacks of existing chemical/gas sensors (electrical)

Methods adopted to improve sensing properties of sensors

Materials

Surface modification

Composites

Doping

Homo/heterojunctions

Sensor arrays

2. E-nose

History

Concept and principle

3. Selection of sensing material

4. Sensor array optimization

5. Feature extraction and selection method

6. Pattern recognition

Different algorithms

6. General machine learning framework for sensor

7. e Nose applications in different fields

8. Limitations, drawbacks and future scope

9. Conclusion