Duan Research Group

Hetero-integrated Nanostructures and Nanodevices

Publications

Highly Sensitive Chemical Detection with Tunable Sensitivity and Selectivity from Ultrathin Platinum Nanowires

Mengning Ding, Yuan Liu, Gongming Wang, Zipeng Zhao, Anxiang Yin, Qiyuan He, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan

Small 13, 1602969 (2016)

Ultrathin platinum nanowires obtained from wet-synthesis with no strong binding ligands exhibit very high sensitivity toward hydrogen gas (two orders of magnitude increase compared with state-of-the-art devices). Their chemical sensitivity, selectivity, and other sensing characteristics can be rationally tailored through further surface engineering. A significantly reduced cross-sensitivity toward humidity is achieved, while the hydrogen sensitivity is preserved or even enhanced.
UCLA, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
E-mail: xduan@chem.ucla.edu