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Carbon Nanotube Based Wearable Room Temperature Gas Sensors

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Functional Nanomaterials

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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are an important class of nanomaterials that have been demonstrated to find a number of important applications in different areas which broadly include, but not limited to, energy conversion and sensors. The versatility of the CNTs in such diverse areas of applications makes them an important candidate for further research in order to tune them to the ever increasing application demands. It has been well established that the electrical performance of CNT based devices shows high sensitivity to the ambient chemical environment where these devices are operated. Thus, from application point of view, it is very important that a concise study of the interaction between CNTs and chemical gases should be undertaken which can significantly deepen the understanding on nanoscale device physics of these types of materials. For example, for small diameters, with a large surface to volume ratio, CNT has been demonstrated to be a potential material for nanoscale level chemical sensors. Further, a wide array of research from this application point of view has led to the development of CNT based flexible and wearable room temperature gas sensors, and practical applications of CNTs have been demonstrated by the feasible CNT based single electronic devices for sensing applications. This chapter deals with both—the device physics of CNT as well as the development of the CNT based flexible and wearable room temperature gas sensors. The chapter also concisely deals with the current challenges of the CNT devices, e.g. large scale integration of CNT devices at the current stage.

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Abhay Gusain is awarded FAPESP Postdoctoral fellowship grant (2017/07635-2) by FAPESP, Brazil. Prof. Paulo B. Miranda, IFSC, USP Sao Paulo, Brazil is acknowledged for his support.

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  1. Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 369, São Carlos, SP, 13566-590, Brazil

    Abhay Gusain

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  1. School of Chemical Sciences, School of Energy Materials, International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India

    Sabu Thomas

  2. Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Nirav Joshi

  3. Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Vijay K. Tomer

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Gusain, A. (2020). Carbon Nanotube Based Wearable Room Temperature Gas Sensors. In: Thomas, S., Joshi, N., Tomer, V. (eds) Functional Nanomaterials. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4810-9_13

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