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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 109, Issue 5, Pages 1923-1929Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp045509l
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Tin oxide single nanowires configured as field effect transistors were shown to be operable and tunable alternately as gas sensors or as catalysts under a gaseous atmosphere that simulated realistic ambient conditions. The unusually large surface-to-volume ratio available with nanowires causes adsorption or desorption of donor or acceptor molecules on the nanowire's surface to greatly alter its bulk electron density at relatively small values of the gate voltage. This process can be sensitively monitored as changes in the nanowire's conductivity. The potentially radical change in carrier density can lead to significant changes in the nanowire's sensitivity as a sensor or reciprocally as a catalyst in reactions that involve charge exchange across the nanowire's surface. This leads to the prospect of tuning catalysis or other surface reactions entirely through electronic means.
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