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Qileng A, Wu Y, Liu Y, Bakker E. Self-Powered Potentiometric Sensor Based on a Passive Signal Amplifier with Electronic Paper Display. Anal Chem 2023; 95:17444-17449. [PMID: 37978946 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c04323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
Abstract
Self-powered potentiometric sensors are attractive because of their simple operation, low cost, fast response, and ability to be integrated with electronic components. Self-powered potentiometric sensors that give a direct colorimetric output are especially interesting, because no power supply is needed, which dramatically reduces waste. Recently reported work from our group using an electronic paper display, however, exhibits limitations, because the visualization of small pH changes is difficult. A self-powered ion-selective potentiometric sensor is introduced here that may amplify the e-paper pixel sensitivity by improving the self-powered circuit. The voltage is amplified by changing the circuit from incorporating parallel to incorporating serial capacitors. With three such capacitors, a greatly improved sensitivity is observed, amplifying the absorbance 3-fold. A portable device is realized that changes the position of the capacitors from parallel to serial through a simple mechanical sliding action. As a result, the pH information on the sample is more easily visualized with a pH uncertainty of about 0.1 when comparing the e-paper output to a color card.
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Affiliation(s)
- Aori Qileng
- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Key Laboratory for Biobased Materials and Energy of Ministry of Education, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Key Laboratory for Biobased Materials and Energy of Ministry of Education, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Qileng A, Wu Y, Liu Y, Bakker E. Distance-Based Self-Powered Signal Transduction of Ion-Selective Electrodes to an Electronic Paper Display Array. Anal Chem 2023; 95:17878-17885. [PMID: 37978921 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c03994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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In this article, we report on the first distance-based readout self-powered potentiometric sensor. The approach is considered more user-friendly for detection by the naked eye and is less prone to optical interferences compared with a direct observation of the pixel darkening. pH-selective electrodes were chosen as a model system to demonstrate the principle in which seven bar-shaped pixels connected in series on one e-paper share one common ground. By connecting each of the pixels serially to capacitors of different capacitances, the fraction of the measurement cell voltage loaded onto the pixels becomes controllable. Consequently, the pixels give different gray values when powered by the same ion-selective electrode (ISE). As a result, the pH information on the sample is visualized as a distance-based signal and the dependence between the capacitance and 1/K (the reciprocal slope in the relationship between absorbance and pH) was constructed. In the current system, a 1 μF capacitance difference changes the value of 1/K by 4.18. With the current setup, the pH accuracy is about 0.5 when comparing the e-paper output to a color card.
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Affiliation(s)
- Aori Qileng
- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Key Laboratory for Biobased Materials and Energy of Ministry of Education, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Key Laboratory for Biobased Materials and Energy of Ministry of Education, College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Han T, Song T, Bao Y, Wang W, He Y, Liu Z, Gan S, Han D, Bobacka J, Niu L. Fast and sensitive coulometric signal transduction for ion-selective electrodes by utilizing a two-compartment cell. Talanta 2023; 262:124623. [PMID: 37244238 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2023.124623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Revised: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/01/2023] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Here, we propose a fast and sensitive coulometric signal transduction method for ion-selective electrodes (ISEs) by utilizing a two-compartment cell. A potassium ion-selective electrode (K+-ISE) was connected as reference electrode (RE) and placed in the sample compartment. A glassy carbon (GC) electrode coated with poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (GC/PEDOT), or reduced graphene oxide (GC/RGO), was connected as working electrode (WE) and placed in the detection compartment together with a counter electrode (CE). The two compartments were connected with an Ag/AgCl wire. The measured cumulated charge was amplified by increasing the capacitance of the WE. The observed slope of the cumulated charge with respect to the change of the logarithm of the K+ ion activity was linearly proportional to the capacitance of the GC/PEDOT and GC/RGO, estimated from impedance spectra. Furthermore, the sensitivity of the coulometric signal transduction using a commercial K+-ISE with internal filling solution as RE and GC/RGO as WE allowed to decrease the response time while still being able to detect a 0.2% change in K+ concentration. The coulometric method utilizing a two-compartment cell was found to be feasible for the determination of K+ concentrations in serum. The advantage of this two-compartment approach, compared to the coulometric transduction described earlier, was that no current passed through the K+-ISE that was connected as RE. Therefore, current-induced polarization of the K+-ISE was avoided. Furthermore, since the GCE/PEDOT and GCE/RGO (used as WE) had a low impedance, the response time of the coulometric response decreased from minutes to seconds.
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- Tingting Han
- Center for Advanced Analytical Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Sensing Materials & Devices, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Photoelectric Sensing Materials and Devices, C/o School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, PR China
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- Center for Advanced Analytical Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Sensing Materials & Devices, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Photoelectric Sensing Materials and Devices, C/o School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, PR China
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- Center for Advanced Analytical Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Sensing Materials & Devices, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Photoelectric Sensing Materials and Devices, C/o School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, PR China.
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- Center for Advanced Analytical Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Sensing Materials & Devices, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Photoelectric Sensing Materials and Devices, C/o School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, PR China
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- Center for Advanced Analytical Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Sensing Materials & Devices, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Photoelectric Sensing Materials and Devices, C/o School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, PR China
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- Center for Advanced Analytical Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Sensing Materials & Devices, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Photoelectric Sensing Materials and Devices, C/o School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, PR China.
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- Center for Advanced Analytical Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Sensing Materials & Devices, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Photoelectric Sensing Materials and Devices, C/o School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, PR China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Psychoactive Substances Monitoring and Safety, Anti-Drug Technology Center of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510230, PR China
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- Åbo Akademi University, Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre, Laboratory of Molecular Science and Engineering, Henriksgatan 2, FI-20500, Turku/Åbo, Finland
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- Center for Advanced Analytical Science, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Sensing Materials & Devices, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Photoelectric Sensing Materials and Devices, C/o School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, PR China
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Wu Y, Bakker E. Self-Powered Signal Transduction of Ion-Selective Electrodes to an Electronic Paper Display. ACS Sens 2022; 7:3201-3207. [PMID: 36251606 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.2c01826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Mobile integrated electrochemical sensors normally require a power supply for operation. Unfortunately, the practice of discarding batteries associated with these devices runs counter to our desire for a sustainable world. Self-powered sensing concepts that draw the energy directly from the measurement itself would overcome this limitation. Potentiometric sensors for the measurement of pH, many electrolytes, and gases are ubiquitous in analytical practice. However, in potentiometry, the voltage is acquired in the absence of current flow, making it seemingly impossible to draw power. Fortunately, it has been recently established that transient currents may be tolerated across potentiometric measurement cells to charge a capacitive or electrochromic element such as Prussian blue integrated in the measurement cell and whose absorbance then directly follows the potential changes in a reversible manner. We have shown here that commercial electronic paper (e-paper), widely used to make electronic ink and ebook readers, can directly be driven by a potentiometric measurement cell in a reversible manner at mild potentials of >100 mV typical for such sensors. The capacitance of the e-paper pixel studied here was found to be 0.53 μF mm-2, 30 times smaller than that of Prussian blue films. The colorimetric absorbance of the e-paper was also more stable (observed drift over 2 h corresponding to 0.76 mV h-1) and reproducible (corresponding to 1 mV standard deviation). The e-paper pixel was directly driven by a polymeric pH electrode as a model system. Choosing a basic inner solution (pH 12.9) behind the membrane gave sufficiently positive cell potentials for driving visible absorbance change in a sample pH range of 4-10, while a more acidic pH of 3.4 and alternating the connections to the e-paper were more suited for more basic samples of pH > 10. This convenient and cost-effective approach makes it possible to directly drive an optical display from the potentiometric measurement itself and should be suitable for moderate sensing membrane resistances of less than about 100 kΩ, depending on the area of the chosen pixel.
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- Yaotian Wu
- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211Geneva, Switzerland
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Han T, Song T, Bao Y, Sun Z, Ma Y, He Y, Gan S, Jiang D, Han D, Bobacka J, Niu L. Amperometric response of solid-contact ion-selective electrodes utilizing a two-compartment cell and a redox couple in solution. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2022.116683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Sailapu SK, Menon C. Engineering Self-Powered Electrochemical Sensors Using Analyzed Liquid Sample as the Sole Energy Source. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2022; 9:e2203690. [PMID: 35981885 PMCID: PMC9561779 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202203690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Many healthcare and environmental monitoring devices use electrochemical techniques to detect and quantify analytes. With sensors progressively becoming smaller-particularly in point-of-care (POC) devices and wearable platforms-it creates the opportunity to operate them using less energy than their predecessors. In fact, they may require so little power that can be extracted from the analyzed fluids themselves, for example, blood or sweat in case of physiological sensors and sources like river water in the case of environmental monitoring. Self-powered electrochemical sensors (SPES) can generate a response by utilizing the available chemical species in the analyzed liquid sample. Though SPESs generate relatively low power, capable devices can be engineered by combining suitable reactions, miniaturized cell designs, and effective sensing approaches for deciphering analyte information. This review details various such sensing and engineering approaches adopted in different categories of SPES systems that solely use the power available in liquid sample for their operation. Specifically, the categories discussed in this review cover enzyme-based systems, battery-based systems, and ion-selective electrode-based systems. The review details the benefits and drawbacks with these approaches, as well as prospects of and challenges to accomplishing them.
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- Sunil Kumar Sailapu
- Biomedical and Mobile Health Technology (BMHT) labDepartment of Health Sciences and TechnologyETH ZürichZürich8008Switzerland
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- Biomedical and Mobile Health Technology (BMHT) labDepartment of Health Sciences and TechnologyETH ZürichZürich8008Switzerland
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Wu Y, Bakker E. Direct Energy Transfer from a pH Glass Electrode to a Liquid Crystal Display. Anal Chem 2022; 94:10408-10414. [PMID: 35818788 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c01557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Self-powered sensors are attractive because the lack of a dedicated battery makes them environmentally friendly and allows them to be more easily miniaturized. Unfortunately, the development of self-powered potentiometric sensors is challenging because only very limited energy can be harvested from this measurement principle. For the first time, the potential of a high impedance glass pH electrode (130 M Ω) is shown here to be directly read out optically. This is accomplished by a liquid crystal display (LCD) as the electrochromic transducer, which changes its transmission upon imposing an external voltage in the range of 2-3 V. Importantly, owing to its low capacitance of about 50 pF, this process requires a very small transient charge on the order of 100 pC, which may be spontaneously imposable even across pH glass electrodes. For the LCD to be turned on, the cell voltage is boosted by additional Zn2+/Zn elements placed in series. The LCD is found to give a time-dependent absorbance decrease, which is mitigated by adding a high resistance element to attenuate the associated decay. The approach gives repeatable LCD absorbance values that allows one to directly visualize pH with a precision of about 0.01 pH units. The absorbance value depends inversely on pH in a much wider range (pH 1-13) than what is normally observed with optical sensors while based on the same underlying measurement as a potentiometric pH probe.
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- Yaotian Wu
- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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Kisiel A, Michalska A, Maksymiuk K. Bypassed ion-selective electrodes – self-powered polarization for tailoring of sensor performance. Analyst 2022; 147:2764-2772. [DOI: 10.1039/d2an00458e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The bypass circuit with zinc wire induces spontaneous charge flow: oxidation of zinc and reduction of the solid contact of K-ISE. This effect is helpful in the improvement of analytical parameters of K-ISE.
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- Anna Kisiel
- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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Potentiometric sensors induce a spontaneous voltage that indicates ion activity in real time. We present here an advanced self-powered potentiometric sensor with memory. Specifically, the approach allows for one to record a deviation from the analyte's original concentration or determine whether the analyte concentration has surpassed a threshold in a predefined time interval. The sensor achieves this by harvesting energy in a capacitor and preserving it with the help of a diode. While the analyte concentration is allowed to return to an original value following a perturbation over time, this may not influence the sensor readout. To achieve the diode function, the sensor utilizes an additional pair of driving electrodes to move the potentiometric signal to a sufficiently high base voltage that is required for operating the diode placed in series with the capacitor and between the sensing probes. A single voltage measurement across the capacitor at the end of a chosen time interval is sufficient to reveal any altered ion activity occurring during that period. We demonstrate the applicability of the sensor to identify incurred pH changes in a river water sample during an interval of 2 h. This approach is promising for achieving deployable sensors to monitor ion activity relative to a defined threshold during a time interval with minimal electronic components in a self-powered design.
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- Sunil Kumar Sailapu
- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona, IMB-CNM (CSIC), C/del Til·lers, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona, IMB-CNM (CSIC), C/del Til·lers, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), P.L. Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Masturah binti Fakhruddin S, Ino K, Inoue KY, Nashimoto Y, Shiku H. Bipolar Electrode‐based Electrochromic Devices for Analytical Applications – A Review. ELECTROANAL 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/elan.202100153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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- Graduate School of Engineering Tohoku University Sendai 980-8579 Japan
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- Graduate School of Environmental Studies Tohoku University Sendai 980-8579 Japan
- Center for Basic Education Faculty of Engineering Graduate Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research University of Yamanashi Kofu 400-8511 Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering Tohoku University Sendai 980-8579 Japan
- Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences Tohoku University Sendai 980-8578 Japan
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- Graduate School of Environmental Studies Tohoku University Sendai 980-8579 Japan
- Graduate School of Engineering Tohoku University Sendai 980-8579 Japan
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