Highly sensitive room temperature carbon monoxide detection using SnO 2 nanoparticle-decorated semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Cui, Shumao ^a   Chang, Jingbo ^a   Ocola, Leonidas E ^b   Chen, Junhong ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTION; CO DETECTION; CO SENSORS; DIELECTROPHORETIC; ELECTRICAL BREAKDOWN; FAST RESPONSE; GAS CONCENTRATION; GOLD ELECTRODES; LOWER DETECTION LIMIT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SENSING PERFORMANCE; SENSING PLATFORMS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

ELECTRODES; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CHEMICAL SENSORS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON NANOTUBE; SULFIDE; TIN DERIVATIVE; TIN SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTOMETRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; MICROELECTRODE; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CONDUCTOMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SEMICONDUCTORS; SULFIDES; TEMPERATURE; TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84871292885     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/2/025503     Document Type: Article

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