Oxygen plasma treated carbon nanotubes for the wireless monitoring of nitrogen dioxide levels

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 208, Issue , 2015, Pages 444-449

  Clément, Pierrick ^a   Ramos, Angel ^a   Lazaro, Antonio ^a   Molina Luna, Leopoldo ^b   Bittencourt, Carla ^c   Girbau, David ^a   Llobet, Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Nitrogen dioxide; Plasma treatment; RFID

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; NITROGEN PLASMA; OXYGEN; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; RADAR; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); YARN;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; MEAN RELATIVE ERROR; NITROGEN DIOXIDES; OXYGEN PLASMA TREATMENTS; PLASMA TREATMENT; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS; TECHNOLOGICAL BARRIERS; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84913555606     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2014.11.059     Document Type: Article

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