Hierarchical ZnO Nanosheet-Nanorod Architectures for Fabrication of Poly(3-hexylthiophene)/ZnO Hybrid NO2 Sensor

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 8600-8607

  Wang, Jing ^a,b   Li, Xian ^a   Xia, Yi ^a   Komarneni, Sridhar ^b   Chen, Haoyuan ^a   Xu, Jianlong ^a   Xiang, Lan ^a   Xie, Dan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

metastable phase directed synthesis; nanosheet nanorod architectures; P3HT ZnO heterojunction film; room temperature NO2 sensor; ZnO

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; COMPOSITE FILMS; DEFECTS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; METASTABLE PHASES; NANORODS; NANOSHEETS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXYGEN VACANCIES; VACANCIES; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

DIRECTED SYNTHESIS; ENHANCED ADSORPTIONS; INTERMEDIATE PHASIS; MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION; OXYGEN VACANCY DEFECTS; POLY-3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE; SENSING PERFORMANCE; ZNO NANOROD ARRAYS;

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84964570436     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b12553     Document Type: Article

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