Nanowerk April 8, 2020
As proof of concept researchers at the State University of Iowa grew shape-controlled cerium oxide nanostructures on fluorine doped tin oxide, carbon paper, and carbon cloth as substrates. They found that the cerium oxide nanostructures grown directly on carbon cloth were the most sensitive glucose biosensors. The enhanced performance of these biosensors was related to the increased surface area and high defect concentrations on the surface. These results provide a potential opportunity for flexible substrates like carbon paper and carbon cloth coupled with nanostructures, in a feasible design, to be used as platforms for robust, affordable, and highly sensitive biosensors. As nanomaterials can kill microbes by puncturing the cell walls of the single-cell microbes, the technology can be used to make antimicrobial cloth and paper products…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
A carbon cloth coated with zinc oxide nanomaterials that are just billionths of a meter in size… Credit: Image: Sonal Padalkar