Real time monitoring of alcoholic fermentation with low-cost amperometric biosensors

S Piermarini1, G Volpe, M Esti

  • 1Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Rome, Italy.

Food Chemistry
|November 13, 2012
PubMed

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