Abstract

Preparation of Graphene Quantum Dots and Their Sensing Properties in Quartz Crystal Microbalance Acetone Sensor

Highlights

  • With the acceleration of the pace of life, the air pollution caused by human activities is gradually increasing

  • The general trend can be seen from the figure: the frequency offset increases with the thickness of the sensitive film, indicating that the gas-sensing property of the graphene quantum dots (GQDs) nanomaterial is related to the thickness of the coated film

  • It is of practical significance to study acetone sensors operating at room temperature (RT)

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Summary

Introduction

With the acceleration of the pace of life, the air pollution caused by human activities is gradually increasing. In 2019, Ming-Jiang and Bing-Ying[12] prepared copper oxide/zinc oxide (CuO/ZnO) nanostructured flowers by a lowtemperature hydrothermal method Their newly designed thin-film acetone gas sensor showed a wide linear range (10–300 mg/cm acetone) at a working temperature of 200 °C. Top-down methods include electron beam lithography, acid oxidative stripping, microwave assistance, hydrothermal synthesis, and electrochemical oxidation.[18,19,20,21] This preparation route has the advantages of abundant raw materials, simple operation, and mass production and the disadvantages of high requirements in terms of equipment, easy destruction of the aromatic structure of graphite, and the incapability of accurately controlling the form and size of the synthesized product.

Chemical reagents and equipment
Preparation of GQDs by citrate pyrolysis
Sample characterization
Production of QCM gas sensor
Wafer cleaning
Material coating and film thickness calculation
Gas-sensing detection device and system calibration
Experimental process
Stability of QCM gas sensor
Sensitivity of QCM gas sensor
Repeatability and response and recovery times of QCM gas sensor
Selectivity of QCM gas sensor
Impact of temperature
Analysis of gas-sensing mechanism
Conclusions
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