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Chemical Sensors Based on Randomly Stacked Graphene Flakes
Applied Physics Letters (2012)
  • Amin Salehi-Khojin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • David Estrada, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Kevin Y. Lin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Ke Ran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Richard T. Haasch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Jian-Min Zuo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Eric Pop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Richard I. Masel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract
We demonstrate a simple fabrication method to produce randomly stacked graphene chemiresistors using surfactant-assisted exfoliation of graphite. We analyze the sensitivity of such chemiresistors as a function of vacuum filtration volume and temperature. At low vacuum filtration volumes (<∼5 mL) the sensors exhibit superior sensitivity towards target molecules compared to previously developed polycrystalline graphene, polycrystalline graphene microribbon, and carbon nanotube chemical sensors. Temperature dependent measurements, transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy suggest the improved sensitivity in the randomly stacked graphene chemiresistors is due to 2-dimensional charge carrier hopping through edge defects.
Keywords
  • carbon nanotubes,
  • chemical sensors,
  • filtration,
  • graphene,
  • graphite,
  • resistors,
  • scanning electron microscopy,
  • transmission electron microscopy
Publication Date
January 16, 2012
Citation Information
Amin Salehi-Khojin, David Estrada, Kevin Y. Lin, Ke Ran, et al.. "Chemical Sensors Based on Randomly Stacked Graphene Flakes" Applied Physics Letters Vol. 100 Iss. 3 (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_estrada/6/