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A chemiresistive sensor has been developed for the room-temperature detection of ammonia vapors using CeO2/multiwalled carbon nanotubes composite synthesized via. two-step method. Structural analysis has revealed the successful formation of the composite. The ammonia sensing measurements using composite-based sensor have shown an increase in device resistance when exposed to ammonia vapors. This indicates p-type conduction in the composite. A linear relation between sensing response and ammonia concentration was obtained. On the one hand, sensor made from CeO2 also gave a sensing response at room temperature and corresponding recovery time was quiet large (190 s). On the other hand, sensor made from CeO2/MWCNTs has shown a response time of 35 s and relatively smaller recovery time (100 s). Further, composite-based sensor has shown higher sensitivity to ammonia when compared with dimethyl formamide, N-methyl pyrrolidone, methanol, isopropyl alcohol, ethanol and chloroform. Importantly, the device has shown a stable and reproducible characteristics over a wide range of humidity.
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This work was supported financially by Department of Science and Technology (DST) New Delhi, India under the Grant No. EMR/2016-007483.
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Dogra, N., Singh, M., Kumar, A. et al. Selective room-temperature ammonia sensing using CeO2-multiwalled carbon nanotube composite. Appl. Phys. A 129, 24 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-022-06283-5
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