Design of Highly Selective Gas Sensors via Physicochemical Modification of Oxide Nanowires: Overview.

ABSTRACT: Strategies for the enhancement of gas sensing properties, and specifically the improvement of gas selectivity of metal oxide semiconductor nanowire (NW) networks grown by chemical vapor deposition and thermal evaporation, are reviewed. Highly crystalline NWs grown by vapor-phase routes have various advantages, and thus have been applied in the field of gas sensors over the years. In particular, n-type NWs such as SnO₂, ZnO, and In₂O₃ are widely studied because of their simple synthetic preparation and high gas response. However, due to their usually high responses to C₂H₅OH and NO₂, the selective detection of other harmful and toxic gases using oxide NWs remains a challenging issue. Various strategies-such as doping/loading of noble metals, decorating/doping of catalytic metal oxides, and

SUBMITTER: Woo HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5038804 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature