Sustainable and efficient technologies for removal and recovery of toxic and valuable metals from wastewater: Recent progress, challenges, and future perspectives

A Abidli, Y Huang, ZB Rejeb, A Zaoui, CB Park - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to their numerous effects on human health and the natural environment, water
contamination with heavy metals and metalloids, caused by their extensive use in various …

P-type metal oxide semiconductor thin films: Synthesis and chemical sensor applications

A Moumen, GCW Kumarage, E Comini - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review focuses on the synthesis of p-type metal-oxide (p-type MOX) semiconductor thin
films, such as CuO, NiO, Co3O4, and Cr2O3, used for chemical-sensing applications. P-type …

Nanohybrids of a MXene and transition metal dichalcogenide for selective detection of volatile organic compounds

WY Chen, X Jiang, SN Lai, D Peroulis… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Two-dimensional transition metal carbides/nitrides, known as MXenes, have been recently
receiving attention for gas sensing. However, studies on hybridization of MXenes and 2D …

Nanoscale heterostructured materials based on metal oxides for a chemiresistive gas sensor

B Mondal, PK Gogoi - ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterials with exceptional physical and chemical properties are the key to the success
of the next generation of gas sensor technology, which is expected to have special features …

TiO2/Cu2O/CuO Multi-Nanolayers as Sensors for H2 and Volatile Organic Compounds: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation

O Lupan, D Santos-Carballal, N Ababii… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
TiO2/Cu2O/CuO multi-nanolayers highly sensitive toward volatile organic compounds
(VOCs) and H2 have been grown in various thicknesses by a cost-effective and reproducible …

Self-supported hierarchical CuO x@ Co 3 O 4 heterostructures as efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for water splitting

Q Zhou, TT Li, J Qian, Y Hu, F Guo… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The preparation of low-cost and efficient bifunctional catalysts towards water splitting is
essential for the production of clean H2 energy. Herein, a hierarchical Co3O4-decorated …

The use of copper oxide thin films in gas-sensing applications

A Rydosz - Coatings, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this work, the latest achievements in the field of copper oxide thin film gas sensors are
presented and discussed. Several methods and deposition techniques are shown with their …

Surface functionalization of layered molybdenum disulfide for the selective detection of volatile organic compounds at room temperature

WY Chen, CC Yen, S Xue, H Wang… - ACS applied materials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are
considered promising sensing materials due to the high surface-to-volume ratio and active …

Au/CuO/Cu2O heterostructures for conductometric triethylamine gas sensing

S Gao, Y Zhao, W Wang, J Zhao, X Wang - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Au decorated CuO/Cu 2 O composite was synthesized using a water bath method.
Surface characterization results show that the materials are composed of needle-like …

Facile fabrication of semiconducting oxide nanostructures by direct ink writing of readily available metal microparticles and their application as low power acetone gas …

L Siebert, N Wolff, N Ababii, MI Terasa, O Lupan… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, a facile two-step fabrication and characterization of printed acetone sensors
based on mixed semiconducting metal oxides is introduced. The devices are fabricated by …