Abstract
Detection of contaminants including inorganic gases, semi-volatile/volatile organic compounds, heavy metals produced by industries, and automobile emissions is necessary in many areas of human activity. Fabrication of highly efficient gas sensors is of great importance today to improve the quality of air. As a gas sensor, material based on graphene has gained attractive attention in field of gas sensors because of the high specific surface area. Graphene and reduced graphene oxide (RGO) are good sensing materials but presence of functional groups on surface of graphene oxide makes it an attractive gas sensing element. In this chapter, authors focus on the recent development in the fabrication of graphene-based gas sensors having 2D hexagonal conjugated structures, high conductivity, and high surface-to-volume ratio. The authors have summarized significant findings on graphene and materials based on it for the detection of toxic gases by using distinct fabrication techniques. Upon exposure to certain gases, changes in electronic and optical properties of graphene and materials based on it are observed. This study focuses on the functionalization effect on the overall sensing performance of materials based on graphene. To make graphene-based materials sensitive and selective toward analyte gases, inclusion of metal oxide nanocomposites and nanoparticles is an effective route. In this chapter, our efforts are in the direction to discuss graphene-based gas sensors designed by different methods for future applications. In addition to this, we discussed the details of designed graphene-based gas sensor response to the sensor system and how they are increasing detection efficiency.
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Deji, R., Rahul, Choudhary, B.C., Sharma, R.K. (2023). Role of Graphene-Based Materials in Gas Sensing Applications: From Synthesis to Device Fabrication. In: Grace, A.N., Sonar, P., Bhardwaj, P., Chakravorty, A. (eds) Handbook of Porous Carbon Materials. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7188-4_18
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