2 pH and CO 2 sensing by curcumin coloured cellophane test strip
ABSTRACTCurcumin coloured cellophane test strip -fabricated without any synthetic material -is used to determine in situ the instantaneous pH changes in liquids and in the air. A low cost, portable sensor array for possible medical and food-industrial application is developed. Next to the pH detection, curcumin coloured test strip can be applied as CO 2 monitoring sensor, too. On-going processes and the structural changes are followed by UV-VIS spectrophotometer, ATR-FTIR and AFM.