Detecting liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) at room temperature using ZnSnO3/ZnO nanowire piezo-nanogenerator as self-powered gas sensor

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 10482-10490

  Fu, Yongming ^a   Nie, Yuxin ^a   Zhao, Yayu ^a   Wang, Penglei ^a   Xing, Lili ^a   Zhang, Yan ^b,c   Xue, Xinyu ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

gas sensing; liquefied petroleum gas; nanogenerator; self powered; ZnSnO3 ZnO nanowire

Indexed keywords

GAS DETECTORS; GASOLINE; NANOGENERATORS; NANOWIRES; TIN COMPOUNDS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

COMPRESSIVE DEFORMATIONS; GAS SENSING; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG); NANOGENERATOR; SELF-POWERED; SELF-POWERED SENSING; SENSING PERFORMANCE;

LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS;

EID: 84930221737     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01822     Document Type: Article

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