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Disadvantages of Nanocomposites for Application in Gas Sensors

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This short chapter analyzes disadvantages of nanocomposites for application in gas sensors. It is shown that complication the gas sensing matrix composition can be accompanied by deterioration of sensor parameters’ reproducibility. Incompatibility of materials used in nanocomposite can also be a reason of sensors parameters worsening. In addition, it should be taken into account that sometimes the increase of sensitivity of devices, elaborated on the base of nanocomposites, is being attained at the expense of worsening other exploitation parameters of sensors. Chapter includes 3 figures and 17 references.

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  1. Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Ghenadii Korotcenkov

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Korotcenkov, G. (2014). Disadvantages of Nanocomposites for Application in Gas Sensors. In: Handbook of Gas Sensor Materials. Integrated Analytical Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7388-6_17

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