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Fe2O3 nanoparticles of different sizes ranging from 22 to 56nm were synthesized chemically by a modified sol-gel method. Pure alpha phase particles as well as particles with admixture of alpha and gamma phase were obtained and identified by…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Shakeel Akbar , S. K. Hasanain , Nasia Azmat , M. Nadeem

Chemical vapor deposited graphene is nanopatterned by a spherical block-copolymer etch mask. The use of spherical rather than cylindrical block copolymers allows homogeneous patterning of cm-scale areas without any substrate surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 Alberto Cagliani , David Mackenzie , Lisa Katharina Tschammer , Filippo Pizzocchero , Kristoffer Almdal , Peter Bøggild

Transition metal dichalcogenides have shown great promise in the field of gas sensing due to their high catalytic activity and unique electronic properties. They can effectively interact with various gas molecules, making them suitable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Jemal Yimer Damte , Hassan Ataalite

Breakthroughs in nanotechnology have enabled the large-scale fabrication of nanoparticles with varied compositions and structures. Yet, evaluating their electrical conductivities remains challenging due to high volume and individual…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Yun Huang , Kai Xu , Zexi Liang , Huaizhi Li , Wenjuan Zhu , Donglei Emma Fan

Nanoporous structures play a promising role in the development of nanomechanical, nanoelectrical and biosensing devices. In addition, nanopores can be utilized as chemical and gas sensors. TiO2 is a semiconductor material, which can have a…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-07-30 Subhasish Chatterjee , Miriam Ginzberg , Bonnie Gersten

A preconcentrating surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensor for the analysis of liquid-soaked tissue, tiny liquid droplets and thin liquid films without the necessity to collect the analyte is reported. The SERS sensor is based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 Longjian Xue , Wei Xie , Leonie Driessen , Katrin F. Domke , Yong Wang , Sebastian Schlücker , Stanislav N. Gorb , Martin Steinhart

The adsorption of methanol (CH3OH) at the Fe3O4(001)-c(2x2) surface was studied using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and temperature-programmed desorption (TPD). CH3OH adsorbs exclusively at…

WO3-x thinfilms featuring petal-like and lamella-like nanostructures are grown under controlled oxygen partial pressures using hot filament chemical vapor deposition. These synthesized WO3-x nanostructures exhibit monoclinic structure and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-16 K. Ganesan , P. K. Ajikumar

This paper reports the first gas sensor based on the plastic inorganic semiconductor GaPS4, pioneering the application of plastic inorganic semiconductors in the field of gas sensing. Unlike traditional rigid sensors, this device leverages…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Qiao Wang

Gas sensors built using two-dimensional (2D) MoS2 have conventionally relied on a change in field-effect-transistor (FET) channel resistance or a change in Schottky contact/pn homojunction barrier. This report demonstrates, for the first…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Sushovan Dhara , Himani Jawa , Sayantan Ghosh , Abin Varghese , Saurabh Lodha

Efficient oil adsorption and recovery is a generous universal importance for future energy demand and environmental protection. Adsorbents based on 2D flatland with engineered surfaces can overcome the limitations of conventional methods…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Meenakshi Talukdar , Sushant Kumar Behera , Kakoli Bhattacharya , Pritam Deb

The results of fabrication and characterization of atomic structure of nanocrystalline thin layers of Y2O3 in cubic and monoclinic phases is reported. Experimental data demonstrate crystalline ordering in nanocrystalline films with average…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-28 D. W. Boukhvalov , D. A. Zatsepin , Yu. A. Kuznetsova , N. V. Gavrilov , A. F. Zatsepin

We report an experimental study of the bimagnetic nanocomposites CoFe2/CoFe2O4.The precursor material, CoFe2O4 was prepared using the conventional stoichiometric combustion method. The nanocomposite CoFe2/CoFe2O4 was obtained by total…

Controlling the redox landscape of transition metal oxides is central to advancing their reactivity for heterogeneous catalysis or high-performance gas sensing. Here we report single Cu atom sites (1.42 wt%) anchored on Co3O4 nanoparticles…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-12 Hamin Shin , Matteo D'Andria , Jaehyun Ko , Dong-Ha Kim , Frank Krumeich , Andreas T. Guentner

A novel approach for electrochemical tuning of alcohol oxidase (AOx) and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) biocatalysis towards butanol-1 oxidation by incorporating enzymes in various designs of amperometric biosensors is presented. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Daria Semenova , Tiago Pinto , Marcus Koch , Krist V. Gernaey , Helena Junicke

By means of ab-initio calculations, we have investigated the chemisorption paroperties of ethanol onto segregating binary nanoalloys. We select nanostructures with icosahedral shape of 55 atoms with a Pt outermost layer over a M core with…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-20 Vagner A. Rigo , Caetano R. Miranda , Francesca Baletto

Herein, a self-assembled hierarchical structure of hematite ($\alpha$-$Fe_2O_3$) was synthesized via a one-pot hydrothermal method. Subsequently, the nanomaterial was doped to get $M_{x}Fe_{2-x}O_3$ (M = Mn-Co; x = 0.01, 0.05, 0.1) at…

Thin films of ZnFe2O4 deposited by pulsed laser technique are here demonstrated as one of the interesting materials for sensing of ethanol. The response transients were fitted well to one-site Langmuir adsorption model. Activation energies…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 Saptarshi De

KTaO3 has recently attracted attention as a model system to study the interplay of quantum paraelectricity, spin-orbit coupling, and superconductivity. However, the high and low vapor pressures of potassium and tantalum present processing…

The use of hydrogen as a clean and renewable alternative to fossil fuels requires a suite of flammability mitigating technologies, particularly robust sensors for hydrogen leak detection and concentration monitoring. To this end, we have…