Journal of Sensors
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 916515, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/916515
Research Article

Tyrosinase-Immobilized Biosensor Based on the Functionalized Hydroxyl Group-MWNT and Detection of Phenolic Compounds in Red Wines

Department of Chemistry, BK 21 NanoBiosensor Research Team, Hannam University, Daejeon 305-811, South Korea

Received 24 July 2009; Accepted 31 August 2009

Academic Editor: Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

Copyright © 2009 Ji-Hoon Yang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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