The 'nose' uses differential sensing, a form of molecular recognition, to recognise subtle structural differences between the molecules.
Stefan Matile and colleagues from the University of Geneva have created a system that mimics the way the human nose recognises scents.
Read Will Dennis’ news story at Highlights in Chemical Technology and read the full article in Chemical Science.
Pattern generation with synthetic sensing systems in lipid bilayer membranes
Toshihide Takeuchi, Javier Montenegro, Andreas Hennig and Stefan Matile, Chem. Sci., 2010
DOI: 10.1039/c0sc00386g
