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Graphene-Metal-Organic Framework Modified Gas Sensor

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The need for more efficient, more effective, and more rapid gas sensors has considerably increased spurred seeking novel materials to meet such growing demand. The main challenges for commercialization of gas sensors based on nanomaterials include commonly encountered low-level sensitivity, the need for enhanced accuracy, long-term stability, and improving their detection limits. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with their superior properties of large surface area and tunable pore size are new classes of crystalline porous materials that are suited for gas sensing applications, where gas molecules detection can greatly be enhanced due to the high surface area of MOFs. However, some features like low stability or low selectivity of MOFs need to be properly addressed in order for MOFs to penetrate the area of gas detection. The gas sensing properties of graphene-based sensors greatly depend on the number of layers and their dispersion. The combination of nanomaterials in graphene structures prevents the agglomeration of the graphene sheet, which can result in increased the effective surface area for gas molecules absorption due to the excellent distribution of nanostructures. Several attempts have emerged over the past decade, where assembly of graphene-based materials and MOFs were effectively pursued to overcome on the above challenges. This chapter provides an overview of the recent developments in gas sensors based on MOF/graphene-based materials (MOF@G) and focusing on the parameters that resulted in enhanced gas sensing performance as well as their preparation methods.

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R. Yousefi would like to acknowledge I.A.U, Masjed-Soleiman Branch and Shiraz University for their financial support in this research work.

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    Abdolhossein Sáaedi

  2. Department of Physics, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

    Mahmood Moradi, Gholam Hossein Bordbar & Ramin Yousefi

  3. Center for Materials Science, Zewail City of Science and Technology, October Gardens, Giza, 12578, Egypt

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  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Farhangian, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Reza Mahmoudian

  5. Department of Physics, Masjed-Soleiman Branch, Islamic Azad University (I.A.U), Masjed Soleyman, Iran

    Ramin Yousefi

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Sáaedi, A., Moradi, M., Alkordi, M.H., Mahmoudian, M.R., Bordbar, G.H., Yousefi, R. (2020). Graphene-Metal-Organic Framework Modified Gas Sensor. In: Thomas, S., Joshi, N., Tomer, V. (eds) Functional Nanomaterials. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4810-9_5

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