Preparation and gas sensing properties of In2O3/Au nanorods for detection of volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Xing, Ruiqing ^a   Xu, Lin ^a,b   Song, Jian ^a   Zhou, Chunyang ^a   Li, Qingling ^a   Liu, Dali ^a   Song, Hong Wei ^a,b  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; GOLD; INDIUM; INDIUM OXIDE; NANOTUBE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

BREATH ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; EXHALATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACETONE; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; BREATH TESTS; EXHALATION; GOLD; HUMANS; INDIUM; NANOTUBES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84934880798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10717     Document Type: Article

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