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Wang L, Li W, Wan L, Wen D. An Artificial Olfactory System Based on a Memristor Can Simulate Organ Injury and Functions in Air Purification. ACS Sens 2023; 8:4810-4817. [PMID: 38060821 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.3c02217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Artificial olfactory systems are receiving increasing attention because of their potential applications in humanoid robots, artificial noses, and the next generation of human-computer interactions. However, simulating the human olfactory system, which recognizes, remembers, and automatically takes protective measures against gases, remains a challenge. In this paper, a WO3-TiO2@Ag NPs (silver nanoparticle) gas sensor was prepared by the sol-gel method, and an Al/pectin:AgNP/ITO memristor was prepared by spin coating and vacuum evaporation. The gas sensor has been combined with the memristor to simulate physical damage to humans in a dangerous gas environment for a long time, and an artificial olfactory system is constructed by field-programmable gate array external control. The WO3-TiO2@Ag NPs gas sensor can sense and identify ethanol vapor through changes in resistance, and the signal transmitted to the pectin-based memristor can switch the resistance state of the memristor to store gas information. Furthermore, the activation of the memristor can also trigger rotation of the fan to purify the gas and reduce damage caused by excessive exposure to dangerous gases. This artificial olfactory system provides a promising strategy for the development of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction systems.
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- Lu Wang
- School of Electronic Engineering, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
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- School of Electronic Engineering, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
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- School of Electronic Engineering, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
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- School of Electronic Engineering, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
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Jeong SY, Kim JS, Lee JH. Rational Design of Semiconductor-Based Chemiresistors and their Libraries for Next-Generation Artificial Olfaction. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2020; 32:e2002075. [PMID: 32930431 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202002075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Revised: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Artificial olfaction based on gas sensor arrays aims to substitute for, support, and surpass human olfaction. Like mammalian olfaction, a larger number of sensors and more signal processing are crucial for strengthening artificial olfaction. Due to rapid progress in computing capabilities and machine-learning algorithms, on-demand high-performance artificial olfaction that can eclipse human olfaction becomes inevitable once diverse and versatile gas sensing materials are provided. Here, rational strategies to design a myriad of different semiconductor-based chemiresistors and to grow gas sensing libraries enough to identify a wide range of odors and gases are reviewed, discussed, and suggested. Key approaches include the use of p-type oxide semiconductors, multinary perovskite and spinel oxides, carbon-based materials, metal chalcogenides, their heterostructures, as well as heterocomposites as distinctive sensing materials, the utilization of bilayer sensor design, the design of robust sensing materials, and the high-throughput screening of sensing materials. In addition, the state-of-the-art and key issues in the implementation of electronic noses are discussed. Finally, a perspective on chemiresistive sensing materials for next-generation artificial olfaction is provided.
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- Seong-Yong Jeong
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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Wang Y, Duan L, Deng Z, Liao J. Electrically Transduced Gas Sensors Based on Semiconducting Metal Oxide Nanowires. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 20:E6781. [PMID: 33260973 PMCID: PMC7729516 DOI: 10.3390/s20236781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Revised: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Semiconducting metal oxide-based nanowires (SMO-NWs) for gas sensors have been extensively studied for their extraordinary surface-to-volume ratio, high chemical and thermal stabilities, high sensitivity, and unique electronic, photonic and mechanical properties. In addition to improving the sensor response, vast developments have recently focused on the fundamental sensing mechanism, low power consumption, as well as novel applications. Herein, this review provides a state-of-art overview of electrically transduced gas sensors based on SMO-NWs. We first discuss the advanced synthesis and assembly techniques for high-quality SMO-NWs, the detailed sensor architectures, as well as the important gas-sensing performance. Relationships between the NWs structure and gas sensing performance are established by understanding general sensitization models related to size and shape, crystal defect, doped and loaded additive, and contact parameters. Moreover, major strategies for low-power gas sensors are proposed, including integrating NWs into microhotplates, self-heating operation, and designing room-temperature gas sensors. Emerging application areas of SMO-NWs-based gas sensors in disease diagnosis, environmental engineering, safety and security, flexible and wearable technology have also been studied. In the end, some insights into new challenges and future prospects for commercialization are highlighted.
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- Ying Wang
- Key Laboratory of Luminescence & Optical Information, Ministry of Education, School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China;
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Security and Privacy in Intelligent Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China;
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- Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
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Ishihara S, Bahuguna A, Kumar S, Krishnan V, Labuta J, Nakanishi T, Tanaka T, Kataura H, Kon Y, Hong D. Cascade Reaction-Based Chemiresistive Array for Ethylene Sensing. ACS Sens 2020; 5:1405-1410. [PMID: 32390438 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c00194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Chemiresistive sensors, which are based on semiconducting materials, offer real-time monitoring of environment. However, detection of nonpolar chemical substances is often challenging because of the weakness of the doping effect. Herein, we report a concept of combining a cascade reaction (CR) and a chemiresistive sensor array for sensitive and selective detection of a target analyte (herein, ethylene in air). Ethylene was converted to acetaldehyde through a Pd-catalyzed heterogeneous Wacker reaction at 40 °C, followed by condensation with hydroxylamine hydrochloride to emit HCl vapor. HCl works as a strong dopant for single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), enabling the main sensor to detect ethylene with excellent sensitivity (10.9% ppm-1) and limit of detection (0.2 ppm) in 5 min. False responses that occur in the main sensor are easily discriminated by reference sensors that partially employ CR. Moreover, though the sensor monitors the variation of normalized electric resistance (ΔR/R0) in the SWCNT network, temporary deactivation of CR yields a sensor system that does not require analyte-free air for a baseline correction (i.e., estimation of R0) and recovery of response. The concept presented here is generally applicable and offers a solution for several issues that are inherently present in chemiresistive sensing systems.
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- Shinsuke Ishihara
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi 175075, India
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi 175075, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi 175075, India
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
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- Nanomaterials Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan
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- Nanomaterials Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center for Catalytic Chemistry, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center for Catalytic Chemistry, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan
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Moon YK, Jeong SY, Kang YC, Lee JH. Metal Oxide Gas Sensors with Au Nanocluster Catalytic Overlayer: Toward Tuning Gas Selectivity and Response Using a Novel Bilayer Sensor Design. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:32169-32177. [PMID: 31398287 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b11079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Noble metals or oxide catalysts have traditionally been loaded or doped to enhance the gas sensing properties of oxide semiconductor chemiresistors. However, the selective detection of various chemicals for a wide range of new applications remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a novel bilayer design with an oxide chemiresistor sensing layer and nanoscale catalytic Au overlayer to provide high controllability for gas sensing characteristics. The Au nanocluster overlayer significantly enhances the methylbenzene response of a SnO2 thick film sensor by reforming gases into more reactive species and suppresses the responses to reactive interference gases through oxidative filtering, leading to excellent selectivity to methylbenzene. Gas sensing characteristics can be tuned by controlling the morphology, amount, and number density of Au nanoclusters through the variation in the Au coating thickness (0.5-3 nm) and thermal annealing conditions (0.5-4 h at 550 °C). Furthermore, the general validity of the proposed Au-coated bilayer sensor design was confirmed through the enhancement of response and selectivity toward methylbenzenes by coating Au nanoclusters onto ZnO and Co3O4 sensors. The sensing mechanism, advantages, and potential applications of bilayer sensors are discussed from the perspective of the separation of sensing and catalytic reactions, as well as the reforming and oxidation of analyte gases in association with the configuration of the sensing layer and Au catalytic overlayer.
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- Young Kook Moon
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Korea University , Seoul 02841 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Korea University , Seoul 02841 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Korea University , Seoul 02841 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Korea University , Seoul 02841 , Republic of Korea
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Choi M, Na HG, Bang JH, Oum W, Choi SW, Kim SS, Kim HW, Jin C. Fast Semiconductor-Metal Bidirectional Transition by Flame Chemical Vapor Deposition. ACS OMEGA 2019; 4:11824-11831. [PMID: 31460291 PMCID: PMC6682083 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b01112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2019] [Accepted: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A simple yet powerful flame chemical vapor deposition technique is proposed that allows free control of the surface morphology, microstructure, and composition of existing materials with regard to various functionalities within a short process time (in seconds) at room temperature and atmospheric pressure as per the requirement. Since the heat energy is directly transferred to the material surface, the redox periodically converges to the energy dynamic equilibrium depending on the energy injection time; therefore, bidirectional transition between the semiconductor/metal is optionally available. To demonstrate this, a variety of Sn-based particles were created on preformed SnO2 nanowires, and this has been interpreted as a new mechanism for the response and response times of gas-sensing, which are representative indicators of the most surface-sensitive applications and show one-to-one correspondence between theoretical and experimental results. The detailed technologies derived herein are clearly influential in both research and industry.
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- Myung
Sik Choi
- Division
of Materials Science and Engineering and The Research Institute of Industrial
Science, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Division
of Materials Science and Engineering and The Research Institute of Industrial
Science, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Division
of Materials Science and Engineering and The Research Institute of Industrial
Science, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Division
of Materials Science and Engineering and The Research Institute of Industrial
Science, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Kangwon National University, Samcheok 25913, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Inha
University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea
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- Division
of Materials Science and Engineering and The Research Institute of Industrial
Science, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Division
of Materials Science and Engineering and The Research Institute of Industrial
Science, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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Palmer RE, Cai R, Vernieres J. Synthesis without Solvents: The Cluster (Nanoparticle) Beam Route to Catalysts and Sensors. Acc Chem Res 2018; 51:2296-2304. [PMID: 30188111 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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It is hard to predict the future of science. For example, when C60 and its structure were identified from the mass spectra of gas phase carbon clusters, few could have predicted the era of carbon nanotechnology which the discovery introduced. The solubilization and functionalization of C60, the identification and then synthesis of carbon nanotubes, and the generation and physics of graphene have made a scale of impact on the international R&D (and to some extent industrial) landscape which could not have been foreseen. Technology emerged from a search for molecules of astrochemical interest in the interstellar gas. This little sketch provides the authors with the confidence to present here a status report on progress toward another radical future-the synthesis of nanoparticles (typically metals) on an industrial scale without solvents and consequently effluents, without salts and their sometimes accompanying toxicity, with minimal prospects for unwanted nanoparticle escape into the environment, with a high degree of precision in the control of the size, shape and composition of the nanoparticles produced and with applications from catalysts and sensors to photonics, electronics and theranostics. In fact, our story begins in exactly the same place as the origin of the nanocarbon era-the generation and mass selection of free atomic clusters in a vacuum chamber. The steps along the path so far include deposition of such beams of clusters onto surfaces in vacuum, elucidation of the key elements of the cluster-surface interaction, and demonstrations of the potential applications of deposited clusters. The principal present challenges, formidable but solvable, are the necessary scale-up of cluster beam deposition from the nanogram to the gram scale and beyond, and the processing and integration of the nanoclusters into appropriate functional architectures, such as powders for heterogeneous catalysis, i.e., the formulation engineering problem. The research which is addressing these challenges is illustrated in this Account by examples of cluster production (on the traditional nanogram scale), emphasizing self-selection of size, controlled generation of nonspherical shapes, and nonspherical binary nanoparticles; by the scale-up of cluster beam production by orders of magnitude with the magnetron sputtering, gas condensation cluster source, and especially the Matrix Assembly Cluster Source (MACS); and by promising demonstrations of deposited clusters in gas sensing and in heterogeneous catalysis (this on the gram scale) in relevant environments (both liquid and vapor phases). The impact on manufacturing engineering of the new paradigm described here is undoubtedly radical; the prospects for economic success are, as usual, full of uncertainties. Let the readers form their own judgements.
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- Richard E. Palmer
- College of Engineering, Swansea University, Bay Campus, Fabian Way, Swansea SA1 8EN, United Kingdom
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- College of Engineering, Swansea University, Bay Campus, Fabian Way, Swansea SA1 8EN, United Kingdom
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- College of Engineering, Swansea University, Bay Campus, Fabian Way, Swansea SA1 8EN, United Kingdom
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Significant electrochemical sensors for ethylene and propylene: the state-of-the-art. MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s00706-018-2208-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Hrachowina L, Domènech-Gil G, Pardo A, Seifner MS, Gràcia I, Cané C, Romano-Rodríguez A, Barth S. Site-Specific Growth and in Situ Integration of Different Nanowire Material Networks on a Single Chip: Toward a Nanowire-Based Electronic Nose for Gas Detection. ACS Sens 2018; 3:727-734. [PMID: 29485272 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b00073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A new method for the site-selective synthesis of nanowires has been developed to enable material growth with defined morphology and, at the same time, different composition on the same chip surface. The chemical vapor deposition approach for the growth of these nanowire-based resistive devices using micromembranes can be easily modified and represents a simple, adjustable fabrication process for the direct integration of nanowire meshes in multifunctional devices. This proof-of-concept study includes the deposition of SnO2, WO3, and Ge nanowires on the same chip. The individual resistors exhibit adequate gas sensing responses toward changing gas concentrations of CO, NO2, and humidity diluted in synthetic air. The data have been processed by principal component analysis with cluster responses that can be easily separated, and thus, the devices described herein are in principle suitable for environmental monitoring.
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- Institut de Microelectrònica de Barcelona, Centre Nacional de Microelectrònica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Institut de Microelectrònica de Barcelona, Centre Nacional de Microelectrònica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien, 1060 Vienna, Austria
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Steinhauer S, Vernieres J, Krainer J, Köck A, Grammatikopoulos P, Sowwan M. In situ chemoresistive sensing in the environmental TEM: probing functional devices and their nanoscale morphology. NANOSCALE 2017; 9:7380-7384. [PMID: 28387407 DOI: 10.1039/c6nr09322a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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In situ transmission electron microscopy provides exciting opportunities to address fundamental questions and technological aspects related to functional nanomaterials, including the structure-property relationships of miniaturized electronic devices. Herein, we report the in situ chemoresistive sensing in the environmental transmission electron microscope (TEM) with a single SnO2 nanowire device, studying the impact of surface functionalization with heterogeneous nanocatalysts. By detecting toxic carbon monoxide (CO) gas at ppm-level concentrations inside the microscope column, the sensing properties of a single SnO2 nanowire were characterized before and after decoration with hybrid Fe-Pd nanocubes. The structural changes of the supported nanoparticles induced by sensor operation were revealed, enabling direct correlation with CO sensing properties. Our novel approach is applicable for a broad range of functional nanomaterials and paves the way for future studies on the relationship between chemoresistive properties and nanoscale morphology.
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- Stephan Steinhauer
- Nanoparticles by Design Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-Son, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan.
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Lee JH, Fan B, Samdin TD, Monteiro DA, Desai MS, Scheideler O, Jin HE, Kim S, Lee SW. Phage-Based Structural Color Sensors and Their Pattern Recognition Sensing System. ACS NANO 2017; 11:3632-3641. [PMID: 28355060 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b07942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The mammalian olfactory system provides great inspiration for the design of intelligent sensors. To this end, we have developed a bioinspired phage nanostructure-based color sensor array and a smartphone-based sensing network system. Using a M13 bacteriophage (phage) as a basic building block, we created structural color matrices that are composed of liquid-crystalline bundled nanofibers from self-assembled phages. The phages were engineered to express cross-responsive receptors on their major coat protein (pVIII), leading to rapid, detectable color changes upon exposure to various target chemicals, resulting in chemical- and concentration-dependent color fingerprints. Using these sensors, we have successfully detected 5-90% relative humidity with 0.2% sensitivity. In addition, after modification with aromatic receptors, we were able to distinguish between various structurally similar toxic chemicals including benzene, toluene, xylene, and aniline. Furthermore, we have developed a method of interpreting and disseminating results from these sensors using smartphones to establish a wireless system. Our phage-based sensor system has the potential to be very useful in improving national security and monitoring the environment and human health.
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- Ju Hun Lee
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Bioinspira Inc. , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- University of California, Berkeley-University of California, San Francisco Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- College of Pharmacy, Ajou University , Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Dongguk University , Seoul 04620, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute , Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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Moon JS, Kim WG, Shin DM, Lee SY, Kim C, Lee Y, Han J, Kim K, Yoo SY, Oh JW. Bioinspired M-13 bacteriophage-based photonic nose for differential cell recognition. Chem Sci 2016; 8:921-927. [PMID: 28572902 PMCID: PMC5452260 DOI: 10.1039/c6sc02021f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 11/05/2016] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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A bioinspired M-13 bacteriophage-based photonic nose was developed for differential cell recognition.
A bioinspired M-13 bacteriophage-based photonic nose was developed for differential cell recognition. The M-13 bacteriophage-based photonic nose exhibits characteristic color patterns when phage bundle nanostructures, which were genetically modified to selectively capture vapor phase molecules, are structurally deformed. We characterized the color patterns of the phage bundle nanostructure in response to cell proliferation via several biomarkers differentially produced by cells, including hydrazine, o-xylene, ethylbenzene, ethanol and toluene. A specific color enables the successful identification of different types of molecular and cellular species. Our sensing technique utilized the versatile M-13 bacteriophage as a building block for fabricating bioinspired photonic crystals, which enables ease of fabrication and tunable selectivity through genetic engineering. Our simple and versatile bioinspired photonic nose could have possible applications in sensors for human health and national security, food discrimination, environmental monitoring, and portable and wearable sensors.
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- Jong-Sik Moon
- BK21 PLUS Nanoconvergence Technology Division , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea .
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- BK21 PLUS Nanoconvergence Technology Division , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea . .,Department of Nano Fusion Technology , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea
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- Research Center for Energy Convergence Technology , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea
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- BK21 PLUS Nanoconvergence Technology Division , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea . .,Department of Nano Fusion Technology , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea
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- BK21 PLUS Nanoconvergence Technology Division , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea . .,Department of Nano Fusion Technology , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea
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- BK21 PLUS Nanoconvergence Technology Division , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea . .,Department of Nano Fusion Technology , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea
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- BK21 PLUS Nanoconvergence Technology Division , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea . .,Department of Nano Fusion Technology , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Cogno-Mechatronics Engineering , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea
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- BIO-IT Foundry Technology Institute , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea . .,Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology , Pusan National University (PNU) , Yangsan Hospital , Yangsan , 50612 , Republic of Korea
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- BK21 PLUS Nanoconvergence Technology Division , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea . .,Department of Nano Fusion Technology , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea.,Department of Nanoenergy Engineering , Pusan National University (PNU) , Busan , 46241 , Republic of Korea
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Kalita B. Tuning the Adsorption of Elemental Mercury by Small Gas-Phase Palladium Clusters: First-Principles Study. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:7714-7731. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b06910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Bulumoni Kalita
- Department of Physics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam 786004, India
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Woo HS, Na CW, Lee JH. Design of Highly Selective Gas Sensors via Physicochemical Modification of Oxide Nanowires: Overview. SENSORS 2016; 16:s16091531. [PMID: 27657076 PMCID: PMC5038804 DOI: 10.3390/s16091531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2016] [Revised: 09/09/2016] [Accepted: 09/16/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Strategies for the enhancement of gas sensing properties, and specifically the improvement of gas selectivity of metal oxide semiconductor nanowire (NW) networks grown by chemical vapor deposition and thermal evaporation, are reviewed. Highly crystalline NWs grown by vapor-phase routes have various advantages, and thus have been applied in the field of gas sensors over the years. In particular, n-type NWs such as SnO2, ZnO, and In2O3 are widely studied because of their simple synthetic preparation and high gas response. However, due to their usually high responses to C2H5OH and NO2, the selective detection of other harmful and toxic gases using oxide NWs remains a challenging issue. Various strategies—such as doping/loading of noble metals, decorating/doping of catalytic metal oxides, and the formation of core–shell structures—have been explored to enhance gas selectivity and sensitivity, and are discussed herein. Additional methods such as the transformation of n-type into p-type NWs and the formation of catalyst-doped hierarchical structures by branch growth have also proven to be promising for the enhancement of gas selectivity. Accordingly, the physicochemical modification of oxide NWs via various methods provides new strategies to achieve the selective detection of a specific gas, and after further investigations, this approach could pave a new way in the field of NW-based semiconductor-type gas sensors.
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- Hyung-Sik Woo
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.
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Yoon JW, Kim JS, Kim TH, Hong YJ, Kang YC, Lee JH. A New Strategy for Humidity Independent Oxide Chemiresistors: Dynamic Self-Refreshing of In2 O3 Sensing Surface Assisted by Layer-by-Layer Coated CeO2 Nanoclusters. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2016; 12:4229-40. [PMID: 27357165 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201601507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2016] [Revised: 05/27/2016] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The humidity dependence of the gas sensing characteristics of metal oxide semiconductors has been one of the greatest obstacles for gas sensor applications during the last five decades because ambient humidity dynamically changes with the environmental conditions. Herein, a new and novel strategy is reported to eliminate the humidity dependence of the gas sensing characteristics of oxide chemiresistors via dynamic self-refreshing of the sensing surface affected by water vapor chemisorption. The sensor resistance and gas response of pure In2 O3 hollow spheres significantly change and deteriorate in humid atmospheres. In contrast, the humidity dependence becomes negligible when an optimal concentration of CeO2 nanoclusters is uniformly loaded onto In2 O3 hollow spheres via layer-by-layer (LBL) assembly. Moreover, In2 O3 sensors LBL-coated with CeO2 nanoclusters show fast response/recovery, low detection limit (500 ppb), and high selectivity to acetone even in highly humid conditions (relative humidity 80%). The mechanism underlying the dynamic refreshing of the In2 O3 sensing surfaces regardless of humidity variation is investigated in relation to the role of CeO2 and the chemical interaction among CeO2 , In2 O3 , and water vapor. This strategy can be widely used to design high performance gas sensors including disease diagnosis via breath analysis and pollutant monitoring.
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- Ji-Wook Yoon
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University Anam-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-713, Republic of Korea
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Cai B, Song Z, Tong Y, Tang Q, Shaymurat T, Liu Y. A Single Nanobelt Transistor for Gas Identification: Using a Gas-Dielectric Strategy. SENSORS 2016; 16:s16060917. [PMID: 27338394 PMCID: PMC4934343 DOI: 10.3390/s16060917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2016] [Revised: 06/14/2016] [Accepted: 06/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Despite tremendous potential and urgent demand in high-response low-cost gas identification, the development of gas identification based on a metal oxide semiconductor nanowire/nanobelt remains limited by fabrication complexity and redundant signals. Researchers have shown a multisensor-array strategy with "one key to one lock" configuration. Here, we describe a new strategy to create high-response room-temperature gas identification by employing gas as dielectric. This enables gas discrimination down to the part per billion (ppb) level only based on one pristine single nanobelt transistor, with the excellent average Mahalanobis distance (MD) as high as 35 at the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) space. The single device realizes the selective recognition function of electronic nose. The effect of the gas dielectric on the response of the multiple field-effect parameters is discussed by the comparative investigation of gas and solid-dielectric devices and the studies on trap density changes in the conductive channel. The current work opens up exciting opportunities for room-temperature gas recognition based on the pristine single device.
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- Bin Cai
- Key Laboratory of UV Light Emitting Materials and Technology (Northeast Normal University), Ministry of Education, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun 130024, China.
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- Key Laboratory of UV Light Emitting Materials and Technology (Northeast Normal University), Ministry of Education, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun 130024, China.
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- Key Laboratory of UV Light Emitting Materials and Technology (Northeast Normal University), Ministry of Education, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun 130024, China.
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- Key Laboratory of UV Light Emitting Materials and Technology (Northeast Normal University), Ministry of Education, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun 130024, China.
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- Key Laboratory of New Energy and Materials Research, Xinjiang Institute of Engineering, Urumqi 830091, China.
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- Key Laboratory of UV Light Emitting Materials and Technology (Northeast Normal University), Ministry of Education, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun 130024, China.
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Kim JH, Wu P, Kim HW, Kim SS. Highly Selective Sensing of CO, C6H6, and C7H8 Gases by Catalytic Functionalization with Metal Nanoparticles. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2016; 8:7173-83. [PMID: 26947256 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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We have fabricated multiple networked SnO2 nanowires and subsequently decorated them with uniformly distributed metal nanoparticles (NPs). The sensing tests indicated that the Pt-, Pd-, and Au-decorated SnO2 nanowires exhibited excellent sensing behavior, specifically for C7H8, C6H6, and CO gases, respectively. We discussed the associated sensing mechanisms in regard to the selective catalytic effects of metal NPs. In addition, by means of d-band theory, we explained the catalytic capabilities of each metal and proposed design principles for exploring new catalytic metals. The present study will pave the way for further development of high-selectivity sensors.
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- Jae-Hun Kim
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Inha University , Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea
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- Entropic Interface Group, Singapore University of Technology & Design , Singapore 487372, Singapore
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- Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University , Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Inha University , Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea
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Kumar V, Guleria P, Mehta SK. Nanoparticles to Sense Food Quality. SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE REVIEWS 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48009-1_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Zhang K, Fan G, Hu R, Li G. Enhanced Dibutyl Phthalate Sensing Performance of a Quartz Crystal Microbalance Coated with Au-Decorated ZnO Porous Microspheres. SENSORS 2015; 15:21153-68. [PMID: 26343661 PMCID: PMC4610551 DOI: 10.3390/s150921153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2015] [Revised: 08/21/2015] [Accepted: 08/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Noble metals addition on nanostructured metal oxides is an attractive way to enhance gas sensing properties. Herein, hierarchical zinc oxide (ZnO) porous microspheres decorated with cubic gold particles (Au particles) were synthesized using a facile hydrothermal method. The as-prepared Au-decorated ZnO was then utilized as the sensing film of a gas sensor based on a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). This fabricated sensor was applied to detect dibutyl phthalate (DBP), which is a widely used plasticizer, and its coating load was optimized. When tested at room temperature, the sensor exhibited a high sensitivity of 38.10 Hz/ppb to DBP in a low concentration range from 2 ppb to 30 ppb and the calculated theoretical detection limit is below 1 ppb. It maintains good repeatability as well as long-term stability. Compared with the undecorated ZnO based QCM, the Au-decorated one achieved a 1.62-time enhancement in sensitivity to DBP, and the selectivity was also improved. According to the experimental results, Au-functionalized ZnO porous microspheres displayed superior sensing performance towards DBP, indicating its potential use in monitoring plasticizers in the gaseous state. Moreover, Au decoration of porous metal oxide nanostructures is proved to be an effective approach for enhancing the gas sensing properties and the corresponding mechanism was investigated.
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- Kaihuan Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute of Cyber Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225002, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute of Cyber Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute of Cyber Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
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Xu L, Dai Z, Duan G, Guo L, Wang Y, Zhou H, Liu Y, Cai W, Wang Y, Li T. Micro/Nano gas sensors: a new strategy towards in-situ wafer-level fabrication of high-performance gas sensing chips. Sci Rep 2015; 5:10507. [PMID: 26001035 PMCID: PMC5377049 DOI: 10.1038/srep10507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2014] [Accepted: 04/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Nano-structured gas sensing materials, in particular nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanowires, enable high sensitivity at a ppb level for gas sensors. For practical applications, it is highly desirable to be able to manufacture such gas sensors in batch and at low cost. We present here a strategy of in-situ wafer-level fabrication of the high-performance micro/nano gas sensing chips by naturally integrating microhotplatform (MHP) with nanopore array (NPA). By introducing colloidal crystal template, a wafer-level ordered homogenous SnO2 NPA is synthesized in-situ on a 4-inch MHP wafer, able to produce thousands of gas sensing units in one batch. The integration of micromachining process and nanofabrication process endues micro/nano gas sensing chips at low cost, high throughput, and with high sensitivity (down to ~20 ppb), fast response time (down to ~1 s), and low power consumption (down to ~30 mW). The proposed strategy of integrating MHP with NPA represents a versatile approach for in-situ wafer-level fabrication of high-performance micro/nano gas sensors for real industrial applications.
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- Lei Xu
- 1] Science and Technology on Micro-system Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China [2] California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Key Lab of Materials Physics, Anhui Key lab of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China
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- Key Lab of Materials Physics, Anhui Key lab of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China
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- Science and Technology on Micro-system Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
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- Science and Technology on Micro-system Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
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- Science and Technology on Micro-system Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
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- Science and Technology on Micro-system Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
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- Key Lab of Materials Physics, Anhui Key lab of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, Anhui, China
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- Science and Technology on Micro-system Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
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- Science and Technology on Micro-system Laboratory, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, China
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MacNaughton S, Ammu S, Manohar SK, Sonkusale S. High-throughput heterogeneous integration of diverse nanomaterials on a single chip for sensing applications. PLoS One 2014; 9:e111377. [PMID: 25350279 PMCID: PMC4211725 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2014] [Accepted: 09/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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There is a large variety of nanomaterials each with unique electronic, optical and sensing properties. However, there is currently no paradigm for integration of different nanomaterials on a single chip in a low-cost high-throughput manner. We present a high throughput integration approach based on spatially controlled dielectrophoresis executed sequentially for each nanomaterial type to realize a scalable array of individually addressable assemblies of graphene, carbon nanotubes, metal oxide nanowires and conductive polymers on a single chip. This is a first time where such a diversity of nanomaterials has been assembled on the same layer in a single chip. The resolution of assembly can range from mesoscale to microscale and is limited only by the size and spacing of the underlying electrodes on chip used for assembly. While many applications are possible, the utility of such an array is demonstrated with an example application of a chemical sensor array for detection of volatile organic compounds below parts-per-million sensitivity.
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- Samuel MacNaughton
- Nanolab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Nanolab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States of America
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Park J, Lee J, Namgung S, Heo K, Lee H, Hohng S, Hong S. Sub-diffraction limit imaging of inorganic nanowire networks interfacing cells. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2014; 10:462-468. [PMID: 24000240 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201301214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2013] [Revised: 06/23/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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- Juhun Park
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-747, Korea
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Hwang S, Kwon H, Chhajed S, Byon JW, Baik JM, Im J, Oh SH, Jang HW, Yoon SJ, Kim JK. A near single crystalline TiO2 nanohelix array: enhanced gas sensing performance and its application as a monolithically integrated electronic nose. Analyst 2014. [PMID: 23193536 DOI: 10.1039/c2an35932d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We present high performance gas sensors based on an array of near single crystalline TiO(2) nanohelices fabricated by rotating oblique angle deposition (OAD). The combination of large surface-to-volume ratio, extremely small size (<30 nm) comparable to the Debye length, a near single crystallinity of TiO(2) nanohelices, together with the unique top-and-bottom electrode configuration hugely improves the H(2)-sensing performance, including ∼10 times higher response at 50 ppm, approximately a factor of 5 lower detection limit, and much faster response time than the conventional TiO(2) thin film devices. Beyond such remarkable performance enhancement, the excellent compatibility of the OAD method compared with the conventional micro-fabrication technology opens a new avenue for monolithic integration of high-performance chemoresistive sensors to fabricate a simple, low cost, reliable, yet fully functional electronic nose and multi-functional smart chips for in situ environmental monitoring.
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- Sunyong Hwang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea
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Wongchoosuk C, Subannajui K, Wang C, Yang Y, Güder F, Kerdcharoen T, Cimalla V, Zacharias M. Electronic nose for toxic gas detection based on photostimulated core–shell nanowires. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra06143h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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This device can detect and discriminate toxic and non-toxic gases in the ppb level at room temperature.
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- Chatchawal Wongchoosuk
- Department of Physics
- Faculty of Science
- Kasetsart University
- Bangkok 10900, Thailand
- Laboratory for Nanotechnology
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- Laboratory for Nanotechnology
- Institute of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK)
- Albert Ludwigs University
- Freiburg 79110, Germany
- Material science and Engineering Program
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- Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics
- Freiburg 79108, Germany
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- Laboratory for Nanotechnology
- Institute of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK)
- Albert Ludwigs University
- Freiburg 79110, Germany
- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering
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- Laboratory for Nanotechnology
- Institute of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK)
- Albert Ludwigs University
- Freiburg 79110, Germany
- Whitesides Research Group
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- Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics
- Freiburg 79108, Germany
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- Laboratory for Nanotechnology
- Institute of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK)
- Albert Ludwigs University
- Freiburg 79110, Germany
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Ramgir N, Datta N, Kaur M, Kailasaganapathi S, Debnath AK, Aswal D, Gupta S. Metal oxide nanowires for chemiresistive gas sensors: Issues, challenges and prospects. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2013.02.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The ability to precisely control the morphology and dimension coupled with the tunable surface reactivity has led to the widespread investigation of nanomaterials for various device applications. The associated high surface area to volume ratio implies that large numbers of atom are residing on the surface and are available for interaction. Accordingly, nanomaterials have demonstrated the potential to realize sensors with ultrahigh sensitivities and fast response kinetics. The smaller size further provides the possibility of miniaturization and integration of large number of devices. All these properties makes them an attractive candidate for the fabrication of electronic nose or e-nose. E-nose is an intelligent chemical-array sensor system that mimics the mammalian olfactory system. The present paper critically reviews the recent development in the field of nanomaterials based e-nose devices. In particular, this paper is focused on the description of nanomaterials for e-nose application, specifically on the promising approaches that are going to contribute towards the further development of this field. Various issues related to successful utilization of different nanomaterials for commercial application are discussed, taking help from the literature. The review concludes by briefing the important steps taken towards the commercialization and highlighting the loopholes that are still to be addressed.
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Jeong SH, Kim S, Cha J, Son MS, Park SH, Kim HY, Cho MH, Whangbo MH, Yoo KH, Kim SJ. Hydrogen sensing under ambient conditions using SnO₂ nanowires: synergetic effect of Pd/Sn codeposition. NANO LETTERS 2013; 13:5938-43. [PMID: 24224874 DOI: 10.1021/nl402998g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Semiconducting SnO2 nanowires deposited with Pd and Sn nanoparticles on their surface are shown to be a highly sensitive hydrogen sensor with fast response time at room temperature. Compared with the SnO2 nanowire deposited with Pd or Sn nanoparticles alone, the Pd/Sn-deposited SnO2 nanowire exhibits a significant improvement in the sensitivity and reversibility of sensing hydrogen gas in the air at room temperature. Our investigation indicates that two factors are responsible for the synergistic effect of Pd/Sn codeposition on SnO2 nanowires. One is that in the presence of Pd the oxidation of Sn nanoparticles on the surface of the SnO2 nanowire is incomplete leading only to suboxides SnOx (1 ≤ x < 2), and the other is that the surface of the Pd/Sn-deposited SnO2 nanowire is almost perfectly hydrophobic.
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- Seung Ho Jeong
- Department of Physics, Yonsei University , Seoul, 120-749, Republic of Korea
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Dai Z, Jia L, Duan G, Li Y, Zhang H, Wang J, Hu J, Cai W. Crack-Free Periodic Porous Thin Films Assisted by Plasma Irradiation at Low Temperature and Their Enhanced Gas-Sensing Performance. Chemistry 2013; 19:13387-95. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201301137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2013] [Revised: 07/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Ma Y, Qu Y, Zhou W. Surface engineering of one-dimensional tin oxide nanostructures for chemical sensors. Mikrochim Acta 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s00604-013-1048-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Zou X, Wang J, Liu X, Wang C, Jiang Y, Wang Y, Xiao X, Ho JC, Li J, Jiang C, Fang Y, Liu W, Liao L. Rational design of sub-parts per million specific gas sensors array based on metal nanoparticles decorated nanowire enhancement-mode transistors. NANO LETTERS 2013; 13:3287-92. [PMID: 23796312 DOI: 10.1021/nl401498t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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"One key to one lock" hybrid sensor configuration is rationally designed and demonstrated as a direct effective route for the target-gas-specific, highly sensitive, and promptly responsive chemical gas sensing for room temperature operation in a complex ambient background. The design concept is based on three criteria: (i) quasi-one-dimensional metal oxide nanostructures as the sensing platform which exhibits good electron mobility and chemical and thermal stability; (ii) deep enhancement-mode field-effect transistors (E-mode FETs) with appropriate threshold voltages to suppress the nonspecific sensitivity to all gases (decouple the selectivity and sensitivity away from nanowires); (iii) metal nanoparticle decoration onto the nanostructure surface to introduce the gas specific selectivity and sensitivity to the sensing platform. In this work, using Mg-doped In2O3 nanowire E-mode FET sensor arrays decorated with various discrete metal nanoparticles (i.e., Au, Ag, and Pt) as illustrative prototypes here further confirms the feasibility of this design. Particularly, the Au decorated sensor arrays exhibit more than 3 orders of magnitude response to the exposure of 100 ppm CO among a mixture of gases at room temperature. The corresponding response time and detection limit are as low as ∼4 s and ∼500 ppb, respectively. All of these could have important implications for this "one key to one lock" hybrid sensor configuration which potentially open up a rational avenue to the design of advanced-generation chemical sensors with unprecedented selectivity and sensitivity.
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- Xuming Zou
- Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, Wuhan University , Wuhan 430072, China
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Lipatov A, Varezhnikov A, Wilson P, Sysoev V, Kolmakov A, Sinitskii A. Highly selective gas sensor arrays based on thermally reduced graphene oxide. NANOSCALE 2013; 5:5426-5434. [PMID: 23661278 DOI: 10.1039/c3nr00747b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The electrical properties of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) have been previously shown to be very sensitive to surface adsorbates, thus making rGO a very promising platform for highly sensitive gas sensors. However, poor selectivity of rGO-based gas sensors remains a major problem for their practical use. In this paper, we address the selectivity problem by employing an array of rGO-based integrated sensors instead of focusing on the performance of a single sensing element. Each rGO-based device in such an array has a unique sensor response due to the irregular structure of rGO films at different levels of organization, ranging from nanoscale to macroscale. The resulting rGO-based gas sensing system could reliably recognize analytes of nearly the same chemical nature. In our experiments rGO-based sensor arrays demonstrated a high selectivity that was sufficient to discriminate between different alcohols, such as methanol, ethanol and isopropanol, at a 100% success rate. We also discuss a possible sensing mechanism that provides the basis for analyte differentiation.
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- Alexey Lipatov
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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Warkiani ME, Bhagat AAS, Khoo BL, Han J, Lim CT, Gong HQ, Fane AG. Isoporous micro/nanoengineered membranes. ACS NANO 2013; 7:1882-1904. [PMID: 23442009 DOI: 10.1021/nn305616k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Isoporous membranes are versatile structures with numerous potential and realized applications in various fields of science such as micro/nanofiltration, cell separation and harvesting, controlled drug delivery, optics, gas separation, and chromatography. Recent advances in micro/nanofabrication techniques and material synthesis provide novel methods toward controlling the detailed microstructure of membrane materials, allowing fabrication of membranes with well-defined pore size and shape. This review summarizes the current state-of-the-art for isoporous membrane fabrication using different techniques, including microfabrication, anodization, and advanced material synthesis. Various applications of isoporous membranes, such as protein filtration, pathogen isolation, cell harvesting, biosensing, and drug delivery, are also presented.
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- Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani
- BioSystems and Micromechanics (BioSyM) IRG, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre, Singapore.
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Chen N, Liu C, Zhang J, Liu H. Synthesis of (4-hexyloxybenzoyl)butylsaure methyl amide/poly(3-hexylthiophene) heterojunction nanowire arrays. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2012; 4:4841-4845. [PMID: 22924629 DOI: 10.1021/am301174a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Large-area P-N heterojunction organic semiconductor nanowire combined (4-hexyloxybenzoyl)butylsaure methyl amide (H-t-B) and Poly (3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) were fabricated and the morphology and photoelectric properties were investigated by the growth of composition. The performance of light on/off switching of the H-t-B/P3HT heterojunction nanowire arrays was measured by the light irradiation on and off, the current in the devices showed two distinct states, the current was only 0.34 μA in the dark, while the current can reach 1.37 μA under the illumination of 45 mW/cm(2). The on/off switching ratio for the device of the heterojunction nanowire arrays is about 4.03.
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- Nan Chen
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China
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Moon HG, Shim YS, Kim DH, Jeong HY, Jeong M, Jung JY, Han SM, Kim JK, Kim JS, Park HH, Lee JH, Tuller HL, Yoon SJ, Jang HW. Self-activated ultrahigh chemosensitivity of oxide thin film nanostructures for transparent sensors. Sci Rep 2012; 2:588. [PMID: 22905319 PMCID: PMC3421433 DOI: 10.1038/srep00588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2012] [Accepted: 08/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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One of the top design priorities for semiconductor chemical sensors is developing simple, low-cost, sensitive and reliable sensors to be built in handheld devices. However, the need to implement heating elements in sensor devices, and the resulting high power consumption, remains a major obstacle for the realization of miniaturized and integrated chemoresistive thin film sensors based on metal oxides. Here we demonstrate structurally simple but extremely efficient all oxide chemoresistive sensors with ~90% transmittance at visible wavelengths. Highly effective self-activation in anisotropically self-assembled nanocolumnar tungsten oxide thin films on glass substrate with indium-tin oxide electrodes enables ultrahigh response to nitrogen dioxide and volatile organic compounds with detection limits down to parts per trillion levels and power consumption less than 0.2 microwatts. Beyond the sensing performance, high transparency at visible wavelengths creates opportunities for their use in transparent electronic circuitry and optoelectronic devices with avenues for further functional convergence.
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- Hi Gyu Moon
- Electronic Materials Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 136-791, Republic of Korea
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Dattoli EN, Davydov AV, Benkstein KD. Tin oxide nanowire sensor with integrated temperature and gate control for multi-gas recognition. NANOSCALE 2012; 4:1760-9. [PMID: 22297465 DOI: 10.1039/c2nr11885h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The selectivity of a chemiresistive gas sensor comprising an array of single-crystalline tin oxide nanowires (NWs) is shown to be greatly enhanced by combined temperature and gate voltage modulation. This dual modulation was effected by a novel microsensor platform that consisted of a suspended nitride membrane embedded with independently addressable platinum heater and back-gate structures. The sensor was evaluated in a chemical vapor exposure test consisting of three volatile organic compound (VOC) analytes in an air background; VOC concentrations ranged from 20 μmol/mol to 80 μmol/mol. During the exposure test, the temperature and gating conditions of the NW sensor were modulated in order to induce variations in the sensor's analyte response behavior. By treating these temperature- and gate-dependent analyte response variations as an identifying "fingerprint," analyte identification was achieved using a statistical pattern recognition procedure, linear discriminant analysis (LDA). Through optimization of this pattern recognition procedure, a VOC recognition rate of 98% was obtained. An analysis of the recognition results revealed that this high recognition rate could only be achieved through the combined modulation of temperature and gate bias as compared to either parameter alone. Overall, the highly accurate VOC analyte discrimination that was achieved here confirms the selectivity benefits provided by the utilized dual modulation approach and demonstrates the suitability of miniature nanowire sensors in real-world, multi-chemical detection problems.
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- Eric N Dattoli
- Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 100 Bureau Drive, MS 8362, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8362, USA.
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Controlling the Conductivity in Oxide Semiconductors. FUNCTIONAL METAL OXIDE NANOSTRUCTURES 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9931-3_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Hoa ND, El-Safty SA. Synthesis of Mesoporous NiO Nanosheets for the Detection of Toxic NO2 Gas. Chemistry 2011; 17:12896-901. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201101122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2011] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Xing LL, Ma CH, Chen ZH, Chen YJ, Xue XY. High gas sensing performance of one-step-synthesized Pd-ZnO nanoflowers due to surface reactions and modifications. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2011; 22:215501. [PMID: 21451228 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/21/215501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Pd-ZnO nanoflowers with high uniformity were prepared via a novel one-step hydrothermal route. High sensitivity, fast response, high selectivity and low work temperature are obtained from Pd-ZnO nanoflower sensors. The sensitivity upon exposure to 300 ppm ethanol is up to 168 at 300 °C and maintains 2.6 at 120 °C. Such behaviors can be attributed to Schottky contact at the Pd/ZnO interface and catalytic activity of Pd nanoparticles. The present results open a way for uniform surface modification of one-dimensional nanostructures with Pd nanoparticles and further enhancing their gas sensing performance.
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- Li-Li Xing
- College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, People's Republic of China
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Mubeen S, Moskovits M. Gate-tunable surface processes on a single-nanowire field-effect transistor. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2011; 23:2306-2312. [PMID: 21608042 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201004203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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- Syed Mubeen
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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Beliatis MJ, Martin NA, Leming EJ, Silva SRP, Henley SJ. Laser ablation direct writing of metal nanoparticles for hydrogen and humidity sensors. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2011; 27:1241-1244. [PMID: 21188990 DOI: 10.1021/la1038574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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A UV pulsed laser writing technique to fabricate metal nanoparticle patterns on low-cost substrates is demonstrated. We use this process to directly write nanoparticle gas sensors, which operate via quantum tunnelling of electrons at room temperature across the device. The advantages of this method are no lithography requirements, high precision nanoparticle placement, and room temperature processing in atmospheric conditions. Palladium-based nanoparticle sensors are tested for the detection of water vapor and hydrogen within controlled environmental chambers. The electrical conduction mechanism responsible for the very high sensitivity of the devices is discussed with regard to the interparticle capacitance and the tunnelling resistance.
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- Michail J Beliatis
- Nano-Electronics centre, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
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Feller JF, Lu J, Zhang K, Kumar B, Castro M, Gatt N, Choi HJ. Novel architecture of carbon nanotube decorated poly(methyl methacrylate) microbead vapour sensors assembled by spray layer by layer. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1039/c0jm03779f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Yan S, Hu D, Hu F, Wu J, Huang N, Xiao Z. Solution-based synthesis of SnO2 nanoparticle/CdS nanowire heterostructures. CrystEngComm 2011. [DOI: 10.1039/c1ce05226h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cho NG, Woo HS, Lee JH, Kim ID. Thin-walled NiO tubes functionalized with catalytic Pt for highly selective C2H5OH sensors using electrospun fibers as a sacrificial template. Chem Commun (Camb) 2011; 47:11300-2. [DOI: 10.1039/c1cc13876f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Sysoev VV, Strelcov E, Sommer M, Bruns M, Kiselev I, Habicht W, Kar S, Gregoratti L, Kiskinova M, Kolmakov A. Single-nanobelt electronic nose: engineering and tests of the simplest analytical element. ACS NANO 2010; 4:4487-4494. [PMID: 20731432 DOI: 10.1021/nn100435h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Electronic instruments mimicking the mammalian olfactory system are often referred to as "electronic noses" (E-noses). Thanks to recent nanotechnology breakthroughs the fabrication of mesoscopic and even nanoscopic E-noses is now feasible in the size domain where miniaturization of the microanalytical systems encounters principal limitations. Here we describe probably the simplest and yet fully functioning E-nose made of an individual single-crystal metal oxide quasi-1D nanobelt. The nanobelt was indexed with a number of electrodes in a way that each segment of the nanobelt between two electrodes defines an individual sensing elemental "receptor" of the array. The required diversity of the sensing elements is "encoded" in the nanobelt morphology via longitudinal width variations of the nanobelt realized during its growth and via functionalization of some of the segments with Pd catalyst. The proposed approach represents the combined bottom-up/top-down technologically viable route to develop robust and sensitive analytical systems scalable down to submicrometer dimensions.
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