Chemiresistive sensing of volatile organic compounds with films of surfactant-stabilized gold and gold-silver alloy nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1543-1552

  Ibañez, Francisco J ^a   Zamborini, Francis P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Au; Chemiresistors; Films; Nanoparticles; Sensors; Vapors

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ETHANOL; GOLD ALLOYS; METALS; METHANOL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SILVER; SILVER ALLOYS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

2-PROPANOL; ALLOY NANOPARTICLES; ANALYTES; AU; CHEMICALLY SYNTHESIZED; CHEMIRESISTORS; CONCENTRATION RANGES; CONDUCTIVE PATHWAYS; ELECTRON HOPPING; FILMS; GOLD-SILVER ALLOY; LIMIT-OF-DETECTION; LONG-TERM STABILITY; METAL COMPOSITION; METHANOL (MEOH); POLAR ANALYTES; SENSING PROPERTIES; SENSORS; SURFACTANT-STABILIZED; TETRAOCTYLAMMONIUM BROMIDE; VAPORS;

GOLD;

ALLOY; GOLD; NANOMATERIAL; SURFACTANT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALLOYS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GOLD; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROELECTRODES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 51849083436     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800109q     Document Type: Article

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