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Metal Oxides Mono‐Dimensional Nanostructures for Gas Sensing and Light Emission
Author(s) -
Soldano Caterina,
Comini Elisabetta,
Baratto Camilla,
Ferroni Matteo,
Faglia Guido,
Sberveglieri Giorgio
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2011.05056.x
Subject(s) - nanotechnology , oxide , nanostructure , materials science , metal , metallurgy
The present Review opens with an overview of metal oxides and the description of their material properties.The first part mainly deals with various preparation techniques and growth mechanisms, which have been largely developed in the last few decades to fabricate different types of metal oxide nanostructures.The second part, on the other hand, will provide the Reader with an up‐to‐date summary of different applications in which metal oxides nanostructures have been successfully implemented and/or suggested. In particular, great attention will be dedicated to the implementation of metal oxide nanostructures for gas sensing as well as light emission applications, for which both working principles and integration, as well as the latest reported cutting edge results are herein reported.Finally, we emphasize on the current potentials of metal oxide nanostructured materials and future challenges that this field in continuous expansion is currently facing.