Sensors, chemical sensors, electrochemical sensors, and ECS

The growing branch of science and technology known as sensors has permeated virtually all professional science and engineering organizations. Sensor science generates thousands of new publications each year, in publications ranging from magazines such as Popular Mechanics and Discover to learned journals like the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES). The Electrochemical Society (ECS), which has declared itself the society for solid state and electrochemical science and technology, and its worldwide membership, have been vitally instrumental in contributions to both the science and technology underlying sensors. This article is about a few of the chemical sensors that have evolved, those still now evolving, and the continuing role of ECS in advancement of sensor science and engineering. (C) 2003 The Electrochemical Society.