Mickaël Castro

Dr. Mickaël Castro

Smart Plastics Group, IRDL CNRS 6027, University of South Brittany (UBS), Lorient, France
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Academic Career Length

23Years (2004-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 April 2016 in Materials & Design
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ADA. Le Duigou
A. Le Duigou
MCMickaël Castro
Mickaël Castro
RBR. Bevan
R. Bevan
NMN. Martin
N. Martin

1 July 2009 in Carbon
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MCMickaël Castro
Mickaël Castro
JLJianbo Lu
Jianbo Lu
SBStephane Bruzaud
Stephane Bruzaud
BKBijandra Kumar
Bijandra Kumar
Jean-Francois FELLERJean-Francois FELLER
Jean-Francois FELLER

17 July 2013 in Journal of Materials Chemistry B
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SCSudipta Chatterjee
Sudipta Chatterjee
MCMickaël Castro
Mickaël Castro
Jean-Francois FELLERJean-Francois FELLER
Jean-Francois FELLER
A room temperature operating electronic nose (e-nose) has been developed by the assembly of conductive polymer nanocomposite (CPC) quantum resistive sensors (QRS). The fabrication of QRS by spray layer by layer (sLbL) of CPC solutions allowed us to obtain transducers with reproducible initial properties that could be easily tailored by adjusting either the number of sprayed layers and/or the solution composition. The selectivity of QRS was varied by changing the chemical nature of the polymer matrix in which carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were dispersed in solution, i.e., poly(carbonate) (PC), poly(caprolactone) (PCL), poly(lactic acid) (PLA), poly(styrene) (PS), and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). The e-nose was then successfully used to detect several volatile organic compounds (VOCs) selected among lung cancer biomarkers: a first set of seven polar vapours (water, ethanol, methanol, acetone, propanol, isopropanol, and 2-butanone), and another set of eleven less and nonpolar vapours (chloroform, toluene, benzene, styrene, cyclohexane, o-xylene, n-propane, n-decane, 1,2,4-trimethyl benzene, isoprene, and 1-hexene). The discrimination ability of the e-nose evaluated after a 3D principal component analysis (PCA) pattern recognition treatment was proved to be very good. Moreover, the quantitativity of the transducers' chemo-resistive responses was well fitted with the Langmuir–Henry-Clustering (LHC) model for both acetone and toluene vapours in a wide range of concentrations. The QRS developed in this study appear to be very good candidates to design low cost e-noses for the anticipated diagnosis of lung cancer by VOC analysis in breath, with ppm level sensitivity (tested down to 2.5 parts per million), short response time (a couple of seconds), low consumption, and a large signal to noise ratio (SNR ≥ 10).

1 January 2012 in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
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Bijandra KumarBijandra Kumar
Bijandra Kumar
MCMickaël Castro
Mickaël Castro
Jean-Francois FELLERJean-Francois FELLER
Jean-Francois FELLER

1 November 2011 in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
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MCMickaël Castro
Mickaël Castro
Bijandra KumarBijandra Kumar
Bijandra Kumar
Jean-Francois FELLERJean-Francois FELLER
Jean-Francois FELLER
ZHZouhair Haddi
Zouhair Haddi
AAA. Amari
A. Amari
Benachir BouchikhiBenachir Bouchikhi
Benachir Bouchikhi

1 April 2009 in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
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ABAudrey Bouvree
Audrey Bouvree
Jean-Francois FELLERJean-Francois FELLER
Jean-Francois FELLER
MCMickaël Castro
Mickaël Castro
YGYves Grohens
Yves Grohens
MRMarguerite Rinaudo
Marguerite Rinaudo