One pot synthesis of mesoporous ZnO-SiO2 nanocomposite as high performance humidity sensor

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 483, Issue , 2015, Pages 121-128

  Tomer, Vijay K ^a   Duhan, Surender ^a   Sharma, Ashok K ^a   Malik, Ritu ^a   Nehra, S P ^a   Devi, Sunita ^b  

^a DEENBANDHU CHHOTU RAM UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Department of Chemistry MKJKM   (India)

Author keywords

Humidity; Mesoporous; Response; SiO2; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; HUMIDITY SENSORS; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; SILICA; ZINC OXIDE;

HUMID ENVIRONMENT; HUMIDITY SENSING MECHANISM; HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES; MESOPOROUS; MESOPOROUS SILICA; NANOCOMPOSITE SENSORS; QUICK RESPONSE TIME; RESPONSE;

LOADING;

NANOCOMPOSITE; SILICA NANOPARTICLE; ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMIDITY; HUMIDITY METER; HUMIDITY SENSOR; IMPEDANCE; ISOTHERM; NANOFABRICATION; NANOSENSOR; ONE POT SYNTHESIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SURFACE AREA; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84939192491     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2015.07.046     Document Type: Article

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