Simple graphene chemiresistors as pH sensors: Fabrication and characterization

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Lei, Nan ^a   Li, Pengfei ^a   Xue, Wei ^a   Xu, Jie ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

focused ion beam; graphene; pH; sensor

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE DEVICES; ION BEAMS; PH; SENSORS;

CONTACT ELECTRODES; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; GRAPHENE SHEETS; GRAPHENE-BASED SENSORS; LIQUID ENVIRONMENT; MECHANICAL EXFOLIATION; MINIATURIZED SIZES;

PH SENSORS;

EID: 80052770076     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/22/10/107002     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Novoselov K S, Geim A K, Morozov S V, Jiang D, Zhang Y, Dubonos S V, Grigorieva I V and Firsov A A 2004 Electric field effect in atomically thin carbon films Science 306 666-9 (Pubitemid 39440910)
2. Novoselov K S, Geim A K, Morozov S V, Jiang D, Katsnelson M I, Grigorieva I V, Dubonos S V and Firsov A A 2005 Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene Nature 438 197-200 (Pubitemid 41599867)
3. Schedin F, Geim A K, Morozov S V, Hill E W, Blake P, Katsnelson M I and Novoselov K S 2007 Detection of individual gas molecules adsorbed on graphene Nat. Mater. 6 652-5 (Pubitemid 47359547)
4. Han M Y, Oezyilmaz B, Zhang Y and Kim P 2007 Energy band-gap engineering of graphene nanoribbons Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 206805
5. Meric I, Han M Y, Young A F, Ozyilmaz B, Kim P and Shepard K L 2008 Current saturation in zero-bandgap, top-gated graphene field-effect transistors Nat. Nanotechnol. 3 654-9
6. Elias D C et al 2009 Control of graphene's properties by reversible hydrogenation: evidence for graphane Science 323 610-3
7. Lee C, Wei X, Kysar J W and Hone J 2008 Measurement of the elastic properties and intrinsic strength of monolayer graphene Science 321 385-8 (Pubitemid 352029970)
8. Cui Y, Wei Q, Park H and Lieber C M 2001 Nanowire nanosensors for highly sensitive and selective detection of biological and chemical species Science 293 1289-92 (Pubitemid 32777412)
9. Zheng G, Patolsky F, Cui Y, Wang W U and Lieber C M 2005 Multiplexed electrical detection of cancer markers with nanowire sensor arrays Nat. Biotechnol. 23 1294-301 (Pubitemid 41486858)
10. Elfström N, Karlström A E and Linnros J 2008 Silicon nanoribbons for electrical detection of biomolecules Nano Lett. 8 945-9
11. Chen R J, Bangsaruntip S, Drouvalakis K A, Wong Shi Kam N, Shim M, Li Y, Kim W, Utz P J and Dai H 2003 Noncovalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes for highly specific electronic biosensors Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. 100 4984-9 (Pubitemid 36542645)
12. Martínez M T, Tseng Y-C, Ormategui N, Loinaz I, Eritja R and Bokor J 2009 Label-free DNA biosensors based on functionalized carbon nanotube field effect transistors Nano Lett. 9 530-6
13. Besteman K, Lee J-O, Wiertz F G M, Heering H A and Dekker C 2003 Enzyme-coated carbon nanotubes as single-molecule biosensors Nano Lett. 3 727-30 (Pubitemid 37140588)
14. Masuhiro A et al 2008 Calibration method for a carbon nanotube field-effect transistor biosensor Nanotechnology 19 045505
15. Maehashi K, Matsumoto K, Takamura Y and Tamiya E 2009 Aptamer-based label-free immunosensors using carbon nanotube field-effect transistors Electroanalysis 21 1285-90
16. Geim A K and Novoselov K S 2007 The rise of graphene Nat. Mater. 6 183-91 (Pubitemid 46353764)
17. Avouris P 2010 Graphene: electronic and photonic properties and devices Nano Lett. 10 4285-94
18. Yang W R, Ratinac K R, Ringer S P, Thordarson P, Gooding J J and Braet F 2010 Carbon nanomaterials in biosensors: should you use nanotubes or graphene? Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49 2114-38
19. Blake P, Hill E W, Neto A H C, Novoselov K S, Jiang D, Yang R, Booth T J and Geim A K 2007 Making graphene visible Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 063124
20. 2 Nano Lett. 7 2707-10 (Pubitemid 47522425)
21. Matsuda Y, Deng W Q and Goddard W A 2010 Contact resistance for 'end-contacted' metal-graphene and metal-nanotube interfaces from quantum mechanics J. Phys. Chem. C 114 17845-50
22. Xia F N, Perebeinos V, Lin Y M, Wu Y Q and Avouris P 2011 The origins and limits of metal-graphene junction resistance Nat. Nanotechnol. 6 179-84
23. Shao Q, Liu G, Teweldebrhan D and Balandin A A 2008 High-temperature quenching of electrical resistance in graphene interconnects Appl. Phys. Lett. 92 202108
24. Muhammad R I et al 2011 Schottky diode via dielectrophoretic assembly of reduced graphene oxide sheets between dissimilar metal contacts New J. Phys. 13 035021
25. Li P, Martin C, Yeung K K and Xue W 2011 Dielectrophoresis aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes as pH sensors Biosensors 1 23-35
26. Ang P K, Chen W, Wee A T S and Loh K P 2008 Solution-gated epitaxial graphene as pH sensor J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130 14392-3
27. Ohno Y, Maehashi K, Yamashiro Y and Matsumoto K 2009 Electrolyte-gated graphene field-effect transistors for detecting pH and protein adsorption Nano Lett. 9 3318-22
28. Heller I, Chatoor S, Männik J, Zevenbergen M A G, Dekker C and Lemay S G 2010 Influence of electrolyte composition on liquid-gated carbon nanotube and graphene transistors J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132 17149-56
29. 2-supported graphene devices Nano Lett. 11 767-71
30. Ni Z H, Wang H M, Luo Z Q, Wang Y Y, Yu T, Wu Y H and Shen Z X 2010 The effect of vacuum annealing on graphene J. Raman Spectrosc. 41 479-83
31. Heller I, Janssens A M, Mannik J, Minot E D, Lemay S G and Dekker C 2007 Identifying the mechanism of biosensing with carbon nanotube transistors Nano Lett. 8 591-5
32. Back J H and Shim M 2006 pH-dependent electron-transport properties of carbon nanotubes J. Phys. Chem. B 110 23736-41 (Pubitemid 46065804)