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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.
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Fedorov, Fedor S.
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Kirilenko, Demid A.
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Trouillet, Vanessa
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Varezhnikov, Alexey S.
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Kiselev, Ilia V.
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Geckle, Udo
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Sommer, Martin
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Bainyashev, Alexey M.
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Artemov, Vasily  
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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

Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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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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