Synthesis of ZnO Hierarchical Structures and Their Gas Sensing Properties
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Materials
2.2. Synthesis of ZnO NFs
2.3. Synthesis of Firecracker and Flower Morphological ZnO Hierarchical Structures
2.4. Characterizations
2.5. Gas sensing Measurements and Fabrication of Gas Sensors
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Materials Characterizations
3.2. Growth Mechanism
3.3. Gas Sensing Tests
3.4. Gas Sensing Mechanism
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Fan, C.; Sun, F.; Wang, X.; Huang, Z.; Keshvardoostchokami, M.; Kumar, P.; Liu, B. Synthesis of ZnO Hierarchical Structures and Their Gas Sensing Properties. Nanomaterials 2019, 9, 1277. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9091277
Fan C, Sun F, Wang X, Huang Z, Keshvardoostchokami M, Kumar P, Liu B. Synthesis of ZnO Hierarchical Structures and Their Gas Sensing Properties. Nanomaterials. 2019; 9(9):1277. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9091277
Chicago/Turabian StyleFan, Chao, Fazhe Sun, Xiaomei Wang, Zuzhen Huang, Mina Keshvardoostchokami, Parveen Kumar, and Bo Liu. 2019. "Synthesis of ZnO Hierarchical Structures and Their Gas Sensing Properties" Nanomaterials 9, no. 9: 1277. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9091277