Anodic fabrication of highly ordered TiO 2 nanotube arrays and its hydrogen sensing

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3082-3089

  Ge, Yuhua ^a   Liu, Xiaorui ^a   Zhu, Wenjing ^a   Liu, Songqin ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anodization; ethylene glycol; glycerol; hydrogen sensing; TiO 2 nanotube arrays

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING TREATMENTS; ANODIZATIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANODIZATIONS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH PURITY; HYDROGEN SENSITIVITY; HYDROGEN-SENSING; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; PD NANO PARTICLE; POLAR SOLVENTS; PORE DIAMETERS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TI FOIL; TIO; TWO-STEP ANODIZATION PROCESS;

ELECTROLYTES; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; FLUORINE; GLYCEROL; HYDROGEN; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 84865269426     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2012.2204802     Document Type: Article

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