The Office of Research and Innovation congratulates Prof. Dr. Huang Nay Ming as one of the co-corresponding authors of a paper entitled “Piezoresistive Effect in Plasma-Doping of Graphene Sheet for High-Performance Flexible Pressure Sensing Application” in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, a tier-1 SCI journal in material science. This paper is authored by seven scientists from five different institutions.

The authors stated the significance of their study:

“The paper presents a straightforward plasma treatment modification of graphene with an enhanced piezoresistive effect for the realization of a high-performance pressure sensor. The changes in the graphene in terms of its morphology, structure, chemical composition, and electrical properties after the NH3/Ar plasma treatment were investigated in detail. Through a sufficient plasma treatment condition, our studies demonstrated that plasma-treated graphene sheet exhibits a significant increase in sensitivity by one order of magnitude compared to that of the unmodified graphene sheet. The high sensitivity and good robustness demonstrated by the plasma-treated graphene sensor suggest a promising route for simple, low-cost, and ultrahigh resolution flexible sensors.”

Prof. Dr. Huang’s contribution focused on the design of the modification of graphene surface to alter its electrical properties.

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Hanniff et al.,    2017 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 9 (17), pp 15192–15201   

This paper is available online: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.7b02833.