2Materials for Nanosensors
2.1 Introduction
When constructing a house, several materials are required, such as cement, concrete, bricks, tiles, iron and steel bars, flooring materials, and so on. Similarly, a large variety of materials are used to fabricate nanosensors. In fact, numerous! But some materials, like nanoparticles (NPs), quantum dots (QDs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), inorganic nanowires, thin films, and nanoporous materials, find widespread usage in many nanosensors. One repeatedly stumbles across their names while perusing nanosensor literature.
Low-dimensional nanometer-sized materials and systems have defined a new research area in condensed-matter physics (the field of physics dealing with the physical properties of condensed ...
