Decorated graphene for sensors

Nanoscale ‘HOT’ CommunicationSEM of graphene decorated with gold

Roya Maboudian and co-workers have developed an easy and versatile way to decorate graphene with metal nanoparticles via electroless deposition.

This method has been used in the fabrication of a gas sensor which, although not optimised, has successfully detected hydrogen sulfide.

The authors believe that their decoration process could be used with existing roll-to-roll fabrication methods for the mass production of sensors.

 

Read the Nanoscale Communication today:

Graphene decoration with metal nanoparticles: Towards easy integration for sensing applications
Albert Gutés, Ben Hsia, Allen Sussman, Willi Mickelson, Alex Zettl, Carlo Carraroa and Roya Maboudian
Nanoscale, 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11537E

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