Hunting out hidden hydrogen: Novel holey nanosheets for detecting hydrogen gas leaks

Posted On: 2021-03-19

While detectors for H2 leaks are available, they require high temperatures to operate, making them expensive, short-lived, and dangerous to use for detection of an explosive or flammable gas. A team of scientists from Incheon National University, Korea, have come up with a novel room temperature H2 sensor design that makes use of nanometer-thin 2-D sheets of zinc oxide filled with nanometer-size holes, aptly named 'holey 2-D nanosheets,' that can potentially revolutionize gas sensing performance in the future.

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https://phys.org/news/2020-12-hidden-hydrogen-holey-nanosheets-gas.html