Issue 8, 2007

Recent progress in chemical detection with single-walled carbon nanotube networks

Abstract

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have had significant impact on the development of gas sensors in the last decade. However, useful applications of SWNTs are limited by the lack of manufacturable routes to device formation. This Highlight article chronicles recent progress in this area and demonstrates the great promise of a new room temperature deposition method for SWNT networks in gas sensing applications. This liquid deposition technique allows the deposition of pre-treated, highly aligned SWNT networks on a wide variety of substrates. A significant advantage of SWNT-network sensors is that fluctuations in the electrical response of individual SWNTs become less important as the size of the network increases. Therefore, device properties can be controlled by the overall density of the network rather than the physical properties of any individual SWNT. At densities where semiconducting pathways dominate, highly sensitive thin-film chemoresistive sensors can be fabricated. Such devices also have higher signal-to-noise ratios and are easier to fabricate than devices based on a single SWNT.

Graphical abstract: Recent progress in chemical detection with single-walled carbon nanotube networks

Article information

Article type
Highlight
Submitted
02 Jan 2007
Accepted
14 May 2007
First published
23 May 2007

Analyst, 2007,132, 719-723

Recent progress in chemical detection with single-walled carbon nanotube networks

P. Vichchulada, Q. Zhang and M. D. Lay, Analyst, 2007, 132, 719 DOI: 10.1039/B618824A

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