Nanostructured Gas Sensors for Health Care: An Overview. Article

Kaushik, Ajeet, Kumar, Rajesh, Jayant, Rahul Dev et al. (2015). Nanostructured Gas Sensors for Health Care: An Overview. . 1(1), 10-23.

cited authors

  • Kaushik, Ajeet; Kumar, Rajesh; Jayant, Rahul Dev; Nair, Madhavan

abstract

  • Nanostructured platforms have been utilized for fabrication of small, sensitive and reliable gas sensing devices owing to high functionality, enhanced charge transport and electro-catalytic property. As a result of globalization, rapid, sensitive and selective detection of gases in environment is essential for health care and security. Nonmaterial such as metal, metal oxides, organic polymers, and organic-inorganic hybrid nanocomposites exhibit interesting optical, electrical, magnetic and molecular properties, and hence are found potential gas sensing materials. Morphological, electrical, and optical properties of such nanostructures can be tailored via controlling the precursor concentration and synthesis conditions resulting to achieve desired sensing. This review presents applications of nano-enabling gas sensors to detect gases for environment monitoring. The recent update, challenges, and future vision for commercial applications of such sensor are also described here.

publication date

  • July 1, 2015

Medium

  • Print-Electronic

start page

  • 10

end page

  • 23

volume

  • 1

issue

  • 1