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The Power of Nanomaterial Approaches in Gas Sensors

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The challenge of nanotechnology is to discover new effects on already known materials and to convert exciting new findings into advanced technologies that are useful for industrial applications.

In these years, researchers have achieved the ability to produce quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) structures in a variety of morphologies such as nanowires, core shell nanowires, nanotubes, nanobelts, hierarchical structures, nanorods, nanorings. In particular, Q1D Metal OXides (MOX) are attracting an increasing interest in gas sensing application: nanosized dimension ensures high specific surface that leads to the enhancement of catalytic activity or surface adsorption. Moreover, single-crystalline structures with well-defined chemical composition and surface terminations are not prone to thermal instabilities suffered from MOX polycrystalline counterpart. All these peculiarities can help to fill the gap between research and industrial application needs, aiming at the development of a reliable, low cost gas sensor.

This chapter presents an up-to-date survey of the research on Q1D metal oxide materials for gas sensing application, addressing the preparation techniques of sensing nano-crystals in connection with their electrical and optical properties. The application as resistive, transistor-based or optical-based gas sensors will be treated.

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Abbreviations

CTM:

Charge transfer model

CW:

Continuous wave

DMMP:

Dimethyl methylphosphonate

MOX:

Metal oxides

NW:

Nanowire

PL:

Photoluminescence

Q1D:

Quasi-one-dimensional

RGTO:

Rheotaxial growth and thermal oxidation

SCR:

Space charge region

SLS:

Solution–liquid–solid

SNT:

Single nanowire transistor

TFT:

Thin-film transistors

TRPL:

Time resolved photoluminescence

VLS:

Vapor–liquid–solid

VS:

Vapor–solid

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Acknowledgments

The authors want to thank first of all the members of the SENSOR lab group in Brescia. This work was partially supported, within the EU FP6, by the ERANET project “NanoSci-ERA: NanoScience in the European Research Area” and by European Community’s 7th Framework Programme, under the grant agreement n° 247768, and from the Russian Federation Government, under the State Contract 02.527.11.0008, within the collaborative Europe-Russia S3 project.

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    Camilla Baratto, Elisabetta Comini, Guido Faglia & Giorgio Sberveglieri

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Baratto, C., Comini, E., Faglia, G., Sberveglieri, G. (2011). The Power of Nanomaterial Approaches in Gas Sensors. In: Fleischer, M., Lehmann, M. (eds) Solid State Gas Sensors - Industrial Application. Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/5346_2011_3

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