Fabrication of chemiresistive gas sensors based on multistep reduced graphene oxide for low parts per million monitoring of sulfur dioxide at room temperature

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 242, Issue , 2017, Pages 461-468

  Kumar, Ramesh ^a   Avasthi, D K ^b   Kaur, Amarjeet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b AMITY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Gas sensors; Reduced graphene oxide; Sensing mechanism

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; GAS ADSORPTION; GAS DETECTORS; ION BEAMS; ION IMPLANTATION; IONS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; LOW ENERGY NITROGEN; MULTI-STEP REDUCTIONS; OXYGEN FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; PARTS PER MILLIONS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; SENSING MECHANISM; TWO-STEP REDUCTION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84995777755     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2016.11.018     Document Type: Article

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