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Nano Research 2018, 11(1): 431-439 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1650-z
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Fabrication of rigid and flexible SrGe4O9 nanotube-based sensors for room-temperature ammonia detection

Show Author's Information Tingting Huang1,2,  Zheng Lou2,  Shuai Chen1,2,  Rui Li1,2,  Kai Jiang3,  Di Chen1( ),  Guozhen Shen2,4( )
College of Physics and Mathematics and Beijing Key Laboratory for Magneto-Photoelectrical Composite and Interface ScienceUniversity of Science and Technology BeijingBeijing100083China
State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and MicrostructuresInstitute of SemiconductorsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100083China
Institute & Hospital of Hepatobiliary SurgeryKey Laboratory of Digital Hepatobiliary Surgery of Chinese PLAChinese PLA Medical SchoolChinese PLA General HospitalBeijing100853China
College of Materials Science and Opto-Electronic TechnologyUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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nanotubes, gas sensors, ammonia, flexible electronics
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Huang T, Lou Z, Chen S, et al. Fabrication of rigid and flexible SrGe4O9 nanotube-based sensors for room-temperature ammonia detection. Nano Research, 2018, 11(1): 431-439. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1650-z
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Ammonia (NH3) detection at room temperature has attracted considerable attention because of the increasing demand for health monitoring, personal safety protection, and industrial manufacturing. Herein, we report the synthesis of polycrystalline SrGe4O9 nanotubes (NTs) via an electrospinning process. These NTs are a new sensing material for the detection of ammonia at room temperature. The SrGe4O9 NTs exhibited a maximum sensing response of 2.49 for 100 ppm NH3, which was increased to 7.08 by decorating the NTs with Pt nanoparticles. Flexible gas sensors were fabricated, which exhibited comparable performance to the rigid device. Additionally, the flexible devices showed excellent flexibility, mechanical stability, and sensing stability under different bending states, manifesting their potential applications in flexible and wearable electronics.


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Fabrication of rigid and flexible SrGe4O9 nanotube-based sensors for room-temperature ammonia detection

Show Author's information Tingting Huang1,2, Zheng Lou2, Shuai Chen1,2, Rui Li1,2, Kai Jiang3, Di Chen1( ), Guozhen Shen2,4( )
College of Physics and Mathematics and Beijing Key Laboratory for Magneto-Photoelectrical Composite and Interface ScienceUniversity of Science and Technology BeijingBeijing100083China
State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and MicrostructuresInstitute of SemiconductorsChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100083China
Institute & Hospital of Hepatobiliary SurgeryKey Laboratory of Digital Hepatobiliary Surgery of Chinese PLAChinese PLA Medical SchoolChinese PLA General HospitalBeijing100853China
College of Materials Science and Opto-Electronic TechnologyUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China

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Ammonia (NH3) detection at room temperature has attracted considerable attention because of the increasing demand for health monitoring, personal safety protection, and industrial manufacturing. Herein, we report the synthesis of polycrystalline SrGe4O9 nanotubes (NTs) via an electrospinning process. These NTs are a new sensing material for the detection of ammonia at room temperature. The SrGe4O9 NTs exhibited a maximum sensing response of 2.49 for 100 ppm NH3, which was increased to 7.08 by decorating the NTs with Pt nanoparticles. Flexible gas sensors were fabricated, which exhibited comparable performance to the rigid device. Additionally, the flexible devices showed excellent flexibility, mechanical stability, and sensing stability under different bending states, manifesting their potential applications in flexible and wearable electronics.

Keywords: nanotubes, gas sensors, ammonia, flexible electronics

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Received: 11 March 2017
Revised: 21 April 2017
Accepted: 25 April 2017
Published: 10 August 2017
Issue date: January 2018

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51672308, 61504136, 61625404), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 4162062), the Key Research Program of Frontiers Sciences, CAS (No. QYZDY-SSW-JSC004, and Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Project (No. Z17111000220000).

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