A new route toward ultrasensitive, flexible chemical sensors: Metal nanotubes by wet-chemical synthesis along sacrificial nanowire templates

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 598-608

  Lim, Mi Ae ^a   Kim, Dong Hwan ^a   Park, Chong Ook ^a   Lee, Young Wook ^a   Han, Sang Woo ^a   Li, Zhiyong ^b   Williams, R Stan ^b   Park, Inkyu ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

chemical sensing; flexible sensor; hydrogen sensor; Pd nanotube; ZnO nanowire

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL SENSING; COMPLEX PROCESSES; DEVICE INTEGRATION; ELECTRODE SURFACES; FACILE SYNTHESIS; FLEXIBLE POLYMER SUBSTRATES; FLEXIBLE SENSOR; HIGH SURFACE AREA; HYDROGEN SENSOR; HYDROTHERMALLY; IN-SITU; LOW POWER; LOW TEMPERATURES; MECHANICAL LOADING; METAL OXIDE NANOWIRES; METAL PRECURSOR; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; NANOTUBE DEVICES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RELIABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS; SENSOR DEVICE; SILICON SUBSTRATES; TEMPLATE REMOVAL; ULTRASENSITIVE; WET CHEMICAL PROCESS; WET CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; ZNO NANOWIRES;

CHEMICAL SENSORS; EQUIPMENT; HYDROGEN; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; NANOTUBES; NANOWIRES; PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC OXIDE;

PALLADIUM;

HYDROGEN; NANOMATERIAL; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONDUCTOMETRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAS; INSTRUMENTATION; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

CONDUCTOMETRY; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GASES; HYDROGEN; NANOSTRUCTURES; TRANSDUCERS; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84856141402     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204009m     Document Type: Article

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