Carbon Nanotube-Based Chemiresistive Sensors

Carbon Nanotube-Based Chemiresistive Sensors

The development of simple and low-cost chemical sensors is critically important for improving human life. Many types of chemical sensors have been developed. Among them, the chemiresistive sensors receive particular attention because of their simple structure, the ease of high precise measurement an...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 17; no. 4; p. 882
Main Authors: Tang, Ruixian, Shi, Yongji, Hou, Zhongyu, Wei, Liangming
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 18-04-2017
MDPI
Subjects:
carbon nanotubes
Chemical sensors
chemiresistive
functionalization
Low cost
Nanotubes
Organic chemistry
Sensors
functionalization
sensors
chemiresistive
carbon nanotubes
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The development of simple and low-cost chemical sensors is critically important for improving human life. Many types of chemical sensors have been developed. Among them, the chemiresistive sensors receive particular attention because of their simple structure, the ease of high precise measurement and the low cost. This review mainly focuses on carbon nanotube (CNT)-based chemiresistive sensors. We first describe the properties of CNTs and the structure of CNT chemiresistive sensors. Next, the sensing mechanism and the performance parameters of the sensors are discussed. Then, we detail the status of the CNT chemiresistive sensors for detection of different analytes. Lastly, we put forward the remaining challenges for CNT chemiresistive sensors and outlook the possible opportunity for CNT chemiresistive sensors in the future.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 23
These authors contributed equally to this work.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s17040882