Solvothermal, Chloroalkoxide-based synthesis of monoclinic WO3 quantum dots and gas-sensing enhancement by surface oxygen vacancies

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 16808-16816

  Epifani, Mauro ^a   Comini, Elisabetta ^b   Díaz, Raül ^c   Andreu, Teresa ^d   Genc, Aziz ^e   Arbiol, Jordi ^e,f   Siciliano, Pietro ^a   Faglia, Guido ^b   Morante, Joan R ^d,g  

^a Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems Unit of Lecce   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c IMDEA ENERGY INSTITUTE   (Spain)

^d CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

gas sensing; solvothermal synthesis; tungsten trioxide

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; ETHANOL; GAS ADSORPTION; GAS DETECTORS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOCRYSTALS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXYGEN VACANCIES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PHASE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; GAS SENSING; LOW OPERATING TEMPERATURE; SOLVOTHERMAL PROCESSING; SOLVOTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; SURFACE OXYGEN VACANCIES; TUNGSTEN TRIOXIDE;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84907885674     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504158r     Document Type: Article

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