Ultrafast Graphene Oxide Humidity Sensors

Borini, Stefano; White, Richard M.; Wei, Di; Astley, Michael; Haque, Samiul; Spigone, Elisabetta; Harris, Nadine; Kivioja, Jani; Ryhänen, Tapani

doi:10.1021/nn404889b

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“…However, both of the two types of sensors cannot be used as flexible sensors due to the complicated measurement systems and nonflexible active materials. In addition to the above, other types of humidity sensors based on the change of impedance, voltage, or strain, have been reported [164][165][166].…”

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Advanced carbon materials for flexible and wearable sensors

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Flexible and wearable sensors have drawn extensive concern due to their wide potential applications in wearable electronics and intelligent robots. Flexible sensors with high sensitivity, good flexibility, and excellent stability are highly desirable for monitoring human biomedical signals, movements and the environment. The active materials and the device structures are the keys to achieve high performance. Carbon nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, carbon black and carbon nanofibers, are one of the most commonly used active materials for the fabrication of high-performance flexible sensors due to their superior properties. Especially, CNTs and graphene can be assembled into various multi-scaled macroscopic structures, including one dimensional fibers, two dimensional films and three dimensional architectures, endowing the facile design of flexible sensors for wide practical applications. In addition, the hybrid structured carbon materials derived from natural bio-materials also showed a bright prospect for applications in flexible sensors. This review provides a comprehensive presentation of flexible and wearable sensors based on the above various carbon materials. Following a brief introduction of flexible sensors and carbon materials, the fundamentals of typical flexible sensors, such as strain sensors, pressure sensors, temperature sensors and humidity sensors, are presented. Then, the latest progress of flexible sensors based on carbon materials, including the fabrication processes, performance and applications, are summarized. Finally, the remaining major challenges of carbon-based flexible electronics are discussed and the future research directions are proposed. [56,57], have been used as the active components for the fabrication of flexible sensors. Among these materials, metal NPs can be used to fabricate flexible sensors with high sensitivity, but the sensing range and stretchability of these sensors are limited [58]. Besides, due to the limited chemical stability and reproducibility of metal nanowires, it is challenging to fabricate stable sensors using metal nanowires [10]. Similarly, conductive polymers with poor stability and conductivity are also difficult to be used for the fabrication of high-performance sensors [59]. In contrast, carbon materials are one of the most commonly investigated materials, especially CNTs and graphene (including graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO)), due to their remarkable mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. To implement macroscopic applications, CNTs and graphene with superior properties in microscopic level should be converted into macroscopic functional assemblies, such as one dimensional (1D) fibers or yarns [60,61], two dimensional (2D) films or sheets [62,63], three dimensional (3D) architectures [64][65][66] (Fig. 1). The multi-scaled macroscopic carbon nanomaterials endow the flexible sensors with high sensitivity, excellent flexibility and good stability as well as desired configurations. Also, lo...

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Section: Flexible Humidity Sensorsmentioning

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“…Besides the methods mentioned above, solution casting, spin coating, spray coating and dip coating [42][43][44][45] have also been explored for the preparation of graphene papers or films. For example, GO or rGO solution was deposited on poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), SiO 2 / P++Si and Au via various techniques to prepare thin films [46][47][48][49], although it is still a challenge to obtain graphene films with uniform thickness and few wrinkles by such type of approaches.…”

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Graphene-Paper Based Electrochemical Sensors

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Electrochemical Sensors Technology

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Graphene paper as a new form of graphene-supported nanomaterials has received worldwide attention since its first report in 2007. Due to their high flexibility, lightweight and good electrical conductivity, graphene papers have demonstrated the promising potential for crucial applications in electrochemical sensors and energy technologies among others. In this chapter, we present some examples to overview recent advances in the research and development of two-dimensional (2D) graphene papers as new materials for electrochemical sensors. The chapter covers the design, fabrication, functionalization and application evaluations of graphene papers. We first summarize the mainstream methods for fabrication of graphene papers/membranes, with the focus on chemical vapour deposition techniques and solution-processing assembly approaches. A large portion of this chapter is then devoted to the highlights of specific functionalization of graphene papers with polymer and nanoscale functional building blocks for electrochemical-sensing purposes. In terms of electrochemical-sensing applications, the emphasis is on enzyme-graphene and nanoparticle-graphene paper-based systems for the detection of glucose. We finally conclude this chapter with brief remarks and outlook.

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“…Neat GO readily interacts with gaseous analytes, thanks to the presence of oxygen-containing functional groups [29][30][31]. In contrast, highly reduced GO (rGO) possesses exceptional conductivity but lacks surface functionality and suffers from poor solubility in common organic solvents [32,33].…”

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Tunable Enhancement of a Graphene/Polyaniline/Poly(ethylene oxide) Composite Electrospun Nanofiber Gas Sensor

2017

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Electrospun nanofibers of a polyaniline (PANi)/ (?)-camphor-10-sulfonic acid (HCSA)/poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) composite doped with different variants of graphene oxide (GO) were fabricated and evaluated as chemiresistor gas sensors operating at room temperature. A new strategy for enhancing PANi/PEO gas sensor performance is demonstrated using GO dopants reduced via thermal (trGO) or chemical (crGO) routes. By varying the chemical reduction duration (6 h, crGO-6 or 24 h, crGO-24), tunable enhancement of sensor response was achieved. Upon exposure to short-chain aliphatic alcohol vapors, the partially reduced crGO-6 dopant exhibited higher response than GO and crGO-24, suggesting that the dopant enhances sensor performance via increased electrical conductivity over neat GO, and enhanced hydrogen bonding capability over the further-reduced crGO-24 variant. Sensor arrays consisting of PANi/PEO doped with trGO, crGO-6 or crGO-24 moieties successfully identified methanol, ethanol, and 1-propanol vapors using principal component analysis (PCA). Graphical abstract

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Ultrafast Graphene Oxide Humidity Sensors

Cited by 812 publications

References 29 publications

Advanced carbon materials for flexible and wearable sensors

Advanced carbon materials for flexible and wearable sensors

Graphene-Paper Based Electrochemical Sensors

Tunable Enhancement of a Graphene/Polyaniline/Poly(ethylene oxide) Composite Electrospun Nanofiber Gas Sensor

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