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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

A Review on Advanced Sensing Materials for Agricultural Gas Sensors.

Calvin Love, Haleh Nazemi, Eman El-Masri, Kenson Ambrose, Michael S Freund, Arezoo Emadi

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Calvin LoveDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6373-0188
Haleh NazemiDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada.
Eman El-MasriDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7472-4042
Kenson AmbroseDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada.
Michael S FreundDepartment of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1104-2292
Arezoo EmadiDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2034-1120
University of Windsor · CADalhousie University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This work is a comprehensive review of sensing materials, which interact with several target gases pertinent to agricultural monitoring applications. Sensing materials which interact with carbon dioxide, water vapor (relative humidity), hydrogen sulfide, ethylene and ethanol are the focus of this work. Performance characteristics such as dynamic range, recovery time, operating temperature, long-term stability and method of deposition are discussed to determine the commercial viability of the sensing materials considered in this work. In addition to the sensing materials, deposition methods are considered to obtain the desired sensing material thickness based on the sensor's mechanism of operation. Various material classes including metal oxides, conductive polymers and carbon allotropes are included in this review. By implementing multiple sensing materials to detect a single target analyte, the issue of selectivity due to cross sensitivity can be mitigated. For this reason, where possible, it is desirable to utilize more than one sensing material to monitor a single target gas. Among those considered in this work, it is observed that PEDOT PSS/graphene and TiO2-coated g-C3N4 NS are best suited for CO2 detection, given their wide dynamic range and modest operating temperature. To monitor the presence of ethylene, BMIM-NTf2, SWCNTs and PtTiO2 offer a dynamic range most suitable for the application and require no active heating. Due to the wide dynamic range offered by SiO2/Si nanowires, this material is best suited for the detection of ethanol; a gas artificially introduced to prolong the shelf life of the harvested crop. Finally, among all other sensing materials investigated, it observed that both SWCNTs and CNTs/SnO2/CuO are most suitable for H2S detection in the given application.

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carbon nano-tube (CNT) sensorschemiresistive gas sensorsfibre-opticgas sensorsmulti-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)polymerssensing materialsvolatile organic compound (VOC)

Identifiers

PMID34069067
PMCPMC8156772
OpenAlexW3162432519

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