scholarly journals Nickel-Oxide Based Thick-Film Gas Sensors for Volatile Organic Compound Detection

Chemosensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Sai Kiran Ayyala ◽  
James A. Covington

In this paper, we report on the development of a highly sensitive and humidity-tolerant metal-oxide-based volatile organic compound (VOC) sensor, capable of rapidly detecting low concentrations of VOCs. For this, we successfully fabricated two different thicknesses of nickel oxide (NiO) sensors using a spin-coating technique and tested them with seven different common VOCs at 40% r.h. The measured film thickness of the spin-coated NiO was ~5 μm (S-5) and ~10 μm (S-10). The fastest response and recovery times for all VOCs were less than 80 s and 120 s, respectively. The highest response (Rg/Ra = 1.5 for 5 ppm ethanol) was observed at 350 °C for both sensors. Sensors were also tested in two different humidity conditions (40% and 90% r.h.). The humidity did not significantly influence the observed sensitivity of the films. Furthermore, S-10 NiO showed only a 3% drift in the baseline resistance between the two humidity conditions, making our sensor humidity-tolerant compared to traditional n-type sensors. Thus, we propose thick-film NiO (10 μm) sensing material as an interesting alternative VOC sensor that is fast and humidity-tolerant.

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (71) ◽  
pp. 57559-57567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaber Nasrollah Gavgani ◽  
Hamed Sharifi Dehsari ◽  
Amirhossein Hasani ◽  
Mojtaba Mahyari ◽  
Elham Khodabakhshi Shalamzari ◽  
...  

A highly efficient VOC sensor based on N-doped graphene quantum dots (N-GQDs)/poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)–poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT–PSS) was fabricated at room temperature.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufeng Sun ◽  
Sheng Ge ◽  
Huanhuan Huang ◽  
Hanxiong Zheng ◽  
Zhen Jin ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-259
Author(s):  
Shreedhar Devkota ◽  
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Jin Oh Jo ◽  
Dong Lyong Jang ◽  
Young Jin Hyun ◽  
...  

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