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Bottom-up designing nanostructured oxide libraries under a lab-on-chip paradigm towards a low-cost highly-selective E-nose

Solomatin, Maksim A.
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Fedorov, Fedor S.
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Kirilenko, Demid A.
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January 2, 2025
Analytica Chimica Acta

Background: The multisensor concept has been developed as a powerful alternative to well-known gas-analytical instrumentation for applications where a fast but accurate and reliable assessment of the environment is required. The concept follows a biology-inspired approach where the selectivity towards various gases/odors is attained via pattern recognition of multisensory signal vectors. Herein, we discuss how to design a selective multisensor library based on various metal oxide nanostructures like a lab-on-chip using a simple but efficient bottom-up growth of materials over the multi-electrode chip under robust dc electrochemical protocols. Results: In addition to a conventional growth of oxide layers over the metal electrodes, we show that the fine nanowall-like oxide structures appear as a quasi-matrixed percolation film over the SiO2 substrate surface in the inter-electrode gaps to constitute a chemiresistive film. We have tested two directions while applying the technique to grow Co, Ni, Mn, and Zn oxides to develop on-chip sensor arrays of, (i) monoxide type employing the oxide films with gradual change of growth time, and (ii) multi-oxide type based on the four oxides. The materials were thoroughly characterized by electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy/mapping to prove the composition and structure. Among tested oxides, ZnO readily appears not only at the electric potential-targeted chip zone but also in other areas to dope the films for yielding heterojunctions with other oxides that enhances a variability of functional properties in the on-chip sensor array. The gas-sensing performance of the chips has been tested versus various chemically akin alcohol vapors at the sub- and low ppm range of concentrations in a mixture with air. Significance: We show that the grown oxide nanostructures exhibit a high-sensitive chemiresistive signal which allows one to build a multisensor vector signal, selective to the kind of alcohols, even at sub-ppm concentrations. Moreover, the multi-oxide library yields options for a superior selectivity under LDA metrics than the gradient-grown mono-oxide one due to the versatility of materials while the low-cost growth protocols remain to be the same in both cases. The delivered method to produce multisensor arrays allows one producing low-cost but efficient electronic nose units for numerous applications.

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DOI
10.1016/j.aca.2024.343387
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85208141921

PubMed ID

39615905

Author(s)
Solomatin, Maksim A.

Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov

Fedorov, Fedor S.

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Kirilenko, Demid A.

Ioffe Institute

Trouillet, Vanessa

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Campus Nord

Varezhnikov, Alexey S.

Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov

Kiselev, Ilia V.

Breitmeier Messtechnik GmbH

Geckle, Udo

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Campus Nord

Sommer, Martin

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Campus Nord

Bainyashev, Alexey M.

Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov

Artemov, Vasily  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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Date Issued

2025-01-02

Published in
Analytica Chimica Acta
Volume

1333

Article Number

343387

Subjects

Electrochemical deposition

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Electronic nose

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Gas sensor

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Multisensor array

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Nanowall

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LBEN  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Ministry for Science and Education

075-15-2022-1230

Russian Science Foundation

21-73-10288

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January 25, 2025
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