Chemical sensing properties of single wire and mat form sensor structures
fabricated from the same carbon nanotube (CNT) materials have been compared.
Sensing properties of CNT sensors were evaluated upon electrical response in
the presence of five vapours as acetone, acetic acid, ethanol, toluene, and
water. Diverse behaviour of single wire CNT sensors was found, while the mat
structures showed similar response for all the applied vapours. This indicates
that the sensing mechanism of random CNT networks cannot be interpreted as a
simple summation of the constituting individual CNT effects, but is associated
to another robust phenomenon, localized presumably at CNT-CNT junctions, must
be supposed.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures,Applied Physics A: Materials Science and
Processing 201
