A holistic review on the recent trends, advances, and challenges for high-precision room temperature liquefied petroleum gas sensors

BC Tladi, RE Kroon, HC Swart, DE Motaung - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), which is mainly composed of hydrocarbons, such as
propane and butane, is a flammable gas that is considered a clean source of energy …

Design and fabrication of quick responsive and highly sensitive LPG sensor using ZnO/SnO2 heterostructured film

A Singh, S Sikarwar, BC Yadav - Materials Research Express, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Highly efficient LPG sensor working at room temperature was developed using a simple and
cost-effective route. For this purpose, ZnO/SnO 2 heterostructure was synthesized using the …

Phosphoborane nanosheets as a sensing element for liquefied petroleum gas–a first-principles study

V Nagarajan, R Bhuvaneswari… - Chemical Physics Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Nowadays, elemental monolayer materials are focused by the research communities due to
their excellent selectivity, sensitivity, and stability toward air pollutants. In the present work …

Effect of Mg-doping ZnO nanoparticles on detection of low ethanol concentrations

S Jaballah, M Benamara, H Dahman, A Ly… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Pure and Mg-doped ZnO (3 at.%) nanoparticles were prepared based to sol–gel
route under supercritical conditions of ethyl alcohol. The samples were characterized by …

Ultra-sensitive and selective p-xylene gas sensor at low operating temperature utilizing Zn doped CuO nanoplatelets: Insignificant vestiges of oxygen vacancies

O Mnethu, SS Nkosi, I Kortidis, DE Motaung… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract p-xylene is a harmful volatile organic compound that needs to be tested for indoor
air quality detection. We report on the sensing characteristics of CuO and Zn doped CuO …

Enhanced room temperature ammonia gas sensing properties of strontium doped ZnO thin films by cost-effective SILAR method

KR Devi, G Selvan, M Karunakaran, ILP Raj… - Materials Science in …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this present work, pure and Sr doped ZnO films were systematically coated SILAR method
is debated. The influence of Sr doping content on microstructure, surface morphology …

Highly sensitive and selective LPG sensor working below lowest explosion limit (LEL) at room temperature using as-fabricated indium doped SnO2 thin film

A Singh, K Kumar, S Sikarwar, BC Yadav - Materials Chemistry and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the present work, an extremely responsive and cost-effective Liquified Petroleum Gas
(LPG) sensor operating at room temperature has been fabricated with indium-doped SnO 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Insightful acetone gas sensing behaviour of Ce substituted MgFe2O4 spinel nano-ferrites

PS Mkwae, I Kortidis, RE Kroon, N Leshabane… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
MgCe x Fe 2-x O 4 (0≤ x≤ 0.2) nanoparticles have been produced by the glyco-thermal
technique and characterized by X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron …

Electronic and simple oscillatory conduction in ferrite gas sensors: Gas-sensing mechanisms, long-term gas monitoring, heat transfer, and other anomalies

SW Gumbi, PS Mkwae, I Kortidis… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The early detection and warning of the presence of hazardous gases have been well
studied. We present a study that focuses on some fundamental properties of gas sensors for …

[HTML][HTML] Green synthesized ZnO/NiO heterostructures based quick responsive LPG sensor for the detection of below LEL with DFT calculations

A Singh, BC Yadav - Results in Surfaces and Interfaces, 2023 - Elsevier
The current research work reports on the detection of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) at room
temperature. The ZnO/NiO heterostructure was synthesized via green method and …