Materials Science, Advances in nanostructured semiconducting oxides for gas sensors
Project: Advances in Nanostructured Semiconducting Oxides for Gas Sensors
The general idea of the ongoing project was to initiate an international cooperation between UNESP and MIT in materials for sensor applications.
In this project we had both student and faculty exchange between both Universities and excellent progress was achieved resulting in conference presentations, one manuscript already submitted to Advanced Functional Materials and two other manuscripts in preparation.
In this initial project we combined the special skills of the Brazilian group in controlling the growth mechanisms of nanostructured semiconductor materials (CuO, SnO2 and CaCu3Ti4O12) together with the expertise of MIT group in sensor characterization and modeling.
With successful achievement of this international cooperation obtained so far in this project, we intend to build up on this initial success and continue to extend the collaboration between UNESP-MIT.
Expected new results from the cooperation UNESP-MIT: improvement of the correlation between electronic properties, defect structure and the nature of exposed planes (crystal orientation) and their impact on the gas sensor response of semiconducting metal oxides; Improvement in sensor measurements system and devices (self-heated substrates, nanostructures adhesion, morphological control, etc).
The general idea of the ongoing project was to initiate an international cooperation between UNESP and MIT in materials for sensor applications.
In this project we had both student and faculty exchange between both Universities and excellent progress was achieved resulting in conference presentations, one manuscript already submitted to Advanced Functional Materials and two other manuscripts in preparation.
In this initial project we combined the special skills of the Brazilian group in controlling the growth mechanisms of nanostructured semiconductor materials (CuO, SnO2 and CaCu3Ti4O12) together with the expertise of MIT group in sensor characterization and modeling.
With successful achievement of this international cooperation obtained so far in this project, we intend to build up on this initial success and continue to extend the collaboration between UNESP-MIT.
Expected new results from the cooperation UNESP-MIT: improvement of the correlation between electronic properties, defect structure and the nature of exposed planes (crystal orientation) and their impact on the gas sensor response of semiconducting metal oxides; Improvement in sensor measurements system and devices (self-heated substrates, nanostructures adhesion, morphological control, etc).