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Defect-engineered graphene chemical sensors with ultrahigh sensitivity

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This study revealed that defect engineering in graphene has significant potential for fabricating ultra-sensitive graphene chemical sensors and systematically investigated the mechanism of gas sensing, which indicated that the vacancy defect is a major contributing factor to the enhanced sensitivity.
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We report defect-engineered graphene chemical sensors with ultrahigh sensitivity (e.g., 33% improvement in NO2 sensing and 614% improvement in NH3 sensing). A conventional reactive ion etching system was used to introduce the defects in a controlled manner. The sensitivity of graphene-based chemical sensors increased with increasing defect density until the vacancy-dominant region was reached. In addition, the mechanism of gas sensing was systematically investigated via experiments and density functional theory calculations, which indicated that the vacancy defect is a major contributing factor to the enhanced sensitivity. This study revealed that defect engineering in graphene has significant potential for fabricating ultra-sensitive graphene chemical sensors.

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This study revealed that defect engineering in graphene has significant potential for fabricating ultra-sensitive graphene chemical sensors.