Graphene-Metal Oxide Gas Sensors for Low Cost and Low Power Selective Room Temperature Gas Sensing (MANGO)

了解我们当地环境和室内空间中的气体成分对于健康的生活方式和为子孙后代留下对地球的积极影响至关重要。如今，我们在许多行业都依赖于气体传感器的精确测量。例如，它们可以警告我们的劳动力潜在的有害气体，可以感知我们家中的气体泄漏，能够识别过时的食品，甚至可以监测我们的空气质量。尽管气体传感器在当前经济中发挥着重要作用，但目前市场上还没有高性能、可靠且廉价的气体传感器。这是由于专用传感器通常昂贵，而较便宜的传感器往往具有主要缺点。例如，当今许多廉价的商业传感器依赖于称为金属氧化物的材料，由于其简单的传感电路和广泛的可用性，金属氧化物是商业应用的理想材料。然而，为了使这些材料检测气体，它们通常必须被加热到250°C以上的温度，这大大限制了它们的应用范围。例如，它们不能部署在潜在易燃气体附近，不能集成到可穿戴技术中，也不能用于低功耗场景。Anaphite是一个由专家科学家和工程师组成的团队，致力于生产对我们的绿色未来产生重大影响的新材料。我们开发了一种新的工艺，大大改变CSOA气敏材料。初步结果表明，我们能够创造出比CSOA技术灵敏数百倍或数千倍的材料，同时以低得多的功率运行。最重要的是，这些材料已被发现在室温下工作，这可能会改变当前的气体传感市场，并实现前所未有的应用。我们提出了一个工业研究项目，我们的团队与先进的机器学习专家合作，提供能够准确感知广泛气体的产品，以广泛应用。我们相信，我们的技术沿着与计算机处理策略的整合，可以创造出性能无与伦比的产品，而且每个人都能负担得起。

Understanding the composition of gases within our local environment and indoor spaces is crucial to both living a healthy lifestyle and leaving a positive impact on our planet for future generations. Today, we rely on the accurate measurement of gas sensors in many industries. For example, they warn our workforce of potentially harmful gases, can sense gas leaks in our homes, are able to identify out-of-date food produce, and even monitor our air-quality. In particular, poor air quality around major cities is currently a leading cause of death worldwide.Despite the vital role that gas sensors play in our current economy, high performance, reliable and inexpensive gas sensors are not available in the current market. This is due to the fact that specialised sensors are typically expensive whilst cheaper sensors tend to have major drawbacks. For example, many inexpensive commercial sensors today rely on materials called metal oxides, which are ideal materials for commercial applications due to their simple sensing circuitry and wide availability. However, in order for these materials to detect gases, they typically have to be heated to temperatures above 250°C, which drastically limits the scope of their applications. For example, they cannot be deployed near potentially flammable gases, integrated into wearable technologies or used in low-power scenarios.Anaphite are a team of expert scientists and engineers who are committed to producing new materials that have a substantial impact on our green future. We have developed a novel process which substantially modifies CSOA gas sensing materials. Preliminary results have shown that we are able to create materials hundreds or thousands of times more sensitive than CSOA technologies, all while operating at much lower power. Crucially, these materials have been found to work at room temperatures, which could transform the current gas sensing market and enabling applications not seen before.We propose an industrial research project whereby our team work with advanced machine learning experts to deliver products able to accurately sense a broad range of gases for widespread applications. We believe that the integration of our technology along with the computer processing strategies currently available could create products unmatched in performance at a cost which is affordable to everyone.