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Ali Akbar Ashkarran

Ali Akbar Ashkarran

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Research

Title
Fabrication, characterization and enhanced sensing performance of graphene-TiO2 gas sensor device
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Graphene-TiO2 Gas Sensor Device Fabrication sol–gel method
Year
2017
Journal Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics
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Researchers Mahdi Taymouri Amiri ، Ali Akbar Ashkarran

Abstract

Graphene-TiO2 nanocomposite layers (G-TiO2- NCLs) were prepared using sol–gel method along with spin coating deposition and applied for detection of CO2 gas. The physicochemical properties of G-TiO2-NCLs gas sensors were determined by X-Ray diffraction (XRD), ultra-violet visible spectroscopy (UV–Vis), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Fourier transform infrared-spectroscopy (FTIR). The gas sensing properties of the prepared G-TiO2- NCLs was successfully demonstrated by detection of CO2 gas at different operating temperatures and gas concentrations. Both pristine TiO2 and G-TiO2-NCLs sensors showed a faster response at operating temperature of 200 °C. It was found that G-TiO2 gas sensors show higher response toward sensing CO2 gas compared with pristine TiO2 sensors at optimum temperature. The enhancement in the gas sensing performance of G-TiO2-NCLs can be ascribed to the introducing of graphene into the TiO2 matrix. The response of G-TiO2-NCLs gas sensors was maximum (1.34) when 0.001 g graphene was incorporated into the TiO2 matrix at 200 °C as an optimum operating temperature.