Carbon Nanostructures as a Multi-Functional Platform for Sensing Applications
Rafael Gregorio Mendes,
Paweł S. Wróbel,
Alicja Bachmatiuk,
Jingyu Sun,
Thomas Gemming,
Zhongfan Liu,
Mark Hermann Rümmeli
Affiliations
Rafael Gregorio Mendes
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden; Helmholtzstr. 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Paweł S. Wróbel
Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials Polish Academy of Sciences; Marie Curie-Skłodowskiej 34 Str., 41-819 Zabrze, Poland
Alicja Bachmatiuk
Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials Polish Academy of Sciences; Marie Curie-Skłodowskiej 34 Str., 41-819 Zabrze, Poland
Jingyu Sun
Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials Innovations, College of Physics, Optoelectronics and Energy, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
Thomas Gemming
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden; Helmholtzstr. 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Zhongfan Liu
Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials Innovations, College of Physics, Optoelectronics and Energy, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
Mark Hermann Rümmeli
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden; Helmholtzstr. 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany
The various forms of carbon nanostructures are providing extraordinary new opportunities that can revolutionize the way gas sensors, electrochemical sensors and biosensors are engineered. The great potential of carbon nanostructures as a sensing platform is exciting due to their unique electrical and chemical properties, highly scalable, biocompatible and particularly interesting due to the almost infinite possibility of functionalization with a wide variety of inorganic nanostructured materials and biomolecules. This opens a whole new pallet of specificity into sensors that can be extremely sensitive, durable and that can be incorporated into the ongoing new generation of wearable technology. Within this context, carbon-based nanostructures are amongst the most promising structures to be incorporated in a multi-functional platform for sensing. The present review discusses the various 1D, 2D and 3D carbon nanostructure forms incorporated into different sensor types as well as the novel functionalization approaches that allow such multi-functionality.
