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Thu 12 Dec 2007Getting a cleaner, greener form of research
Ordinary office printers can be used to create sensors which can help to monitor the environment and detect disease. How can it work? Claire O'Connellreports
When you think of high-tech scientific equipment, a desktop printer hardly springs to mind. But scientists at Dublin City University (DCU) have harnessed the humble office printer to develop cheap and effective plastic sensors, and their approach could revolutionise how we monitor the environment and even detect disease.
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