Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 12, Issue 50, Pages 56135-56150Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c14055
Keywords
gas sensor; microplotter; sol-gel synthesis; multisensor array; metal oxide; selectivity; electronic nose; alcohol
Funding
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [18-33-20248 mol_a_ved]
- Russian Science Foundation [19-72-00136]
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation [07500337-20-03, FSMG-2020-0007, FZSR-2020-0007, 075-03-2020-097/1]
- DAAD scholarship [91619230]
- Russian Science Foundation [19-72-00136] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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Information about the surrounding atmosphere at a real timescale significantly relies on available gas sensors to be efficiently combined into multisensor arrays as electronic olfaction units. However, the array's performance is challenged by the ability to provide orthogonal responses from the employed sensors at a reasonable cost. This issue becomes more demanded when the arrays are designed under an on-chip paradigm to meet a number of emerging calls either in the internet-of-things industry or in situ noninvasive diagnostics of human breath, to name a few, for small-sized low-powered detectors. The recent advances in additive manufacturing provide a solid top-down background to develop such chip-based gas-analytical systems under low-cost technology protocols. Here, we employ hydrolytically active heteroligand complexes of metals as ink components for microplotter patterning a multioxide combinatorial library of chemiresistive type at a single chip equipped with multiple electrodes. To primarily test the performance of such a multisensor array, various semiconducting oxides of the p- and n-conductance origins based on pristine and mixed nanocrystalline MnOx, TiO2, ZrO2, CeO2, ZnO, Cr2O3, Co3O4, and SnO2 thin films, of up to 70 nm thick, have been printed over hundred pm areas and their micronanostructure and fabrication conditions are thoroughly assessed. The developed multioxide library is shown to deliver at a range of operating temperatures, up to 400 degrees C, highly sensitive and highly selective vector signals to different, but chemically akin, alcohol vapors (methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, and n-butanol) as examples at low ppm concentrations when mixed with air. The suggested approach provides us a promising way to achieve cost-effective and well-performed electronic olfaction devices matured from the diverse chemiresistive responses of the printed nanocrystalline oxides.
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