Low powered, tunable and ultra-light aerographite sensor for climate relevant gas monitoring
| Autor: | Yogendra Kumar Mishra, Karl Schulte, Bodo Fiedler, Vasile Postica, Oleg Lupan, Rainer Adelung, Matthias Mecklenburg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Nanotechnology Context (language use) Biasing 02 engineering and technology General Chemistry 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences Renewable energy Nanosensor Greenhouse gas Environmental monitoring Optoelectronics Environmental science General Materials Science 0210 nano-technology business Energy harvesting Voltage |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 4:16723-16730 |
| ISSN: | 2050-7496 2050-7488 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c6ta05347e |
| Popis: | Increasing atmospheric CO2 gas pollution and emergence of new types of green energy sources require continuous environmental monitoring. In this context, fast, efficient, light, robust, and reliable gas sensors that can work at room temperature are in high demand. We report on a low-powered type of ultra-light sensor, based on a 3-D-microtube network from a 2-D graphene/nanographite, called aerographite, and a method to tune the nanosensor’s selectivity by a simple variation of the applied bias voltage. Adequate selectivity to CO2 and ultra-fast sensing of H2 by applying 1 V and 5 V, respectively, is obtained. At ultra-low applied bias voltages (1–100 mV) only very low power consumption (≈3.6 nW for 1 mV) is needed. This is most important, as it can be run by energy harvesting methods. The presented results are of the highest interest in terms of low-cost production of ultra-light and ultra-low-power consumption gas sensors for environmental monitoring of greenhouse gases and their simplicity from the technological/engineering points of view. |
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