In situ monitoring of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) during its production process is needed. Here, an electrochemical H2O2 sensor with a wide linear current response range (concentration: 5 × 10−8 to 5 × 10−2 m), a low detection limit (32.4 × 10−9 m), and a high sensitivity (568.47 µA mm−1 cm−2) is developed. The electrocatalyst of the sensor consists of cobalt nanoparticles and atomic Co‐Nx moieties anchored on nitrogen doped carbon nanotube arrays (Co‐N/CNT), which is obtained through the pyrolysis of the sandwich‐like urea@ZIF‐67 complex. More cobalt nanoparticles and atomic Co‐Nx as active sites are exposed during pyrolysis, contributing to higher electrocatalytic activity. Moreover, a portable screen‐printed electrode sensor is constructed and demonstrated for rapidly detecting (cost ≈40 s) H2O2 produced in microbial fuel cells with only 50 µL solution. Both the synthesis strategy and sensor design can be applied to other energy and environmental fields.
Although the microstrip antenna has been extensively studied in the past few decades as one of the standard planar antennas, it still has a huge potential for further developments. The paper suggests three areas for further research based on our previous works on microstrip antenna elements and arrays. One is exploring the variety of microstrip antenna topologies to meet the desired requirement such as ultrawide band (UWB), high gain, miniaturization, circular polarization, multipolarized, and so on. Another is to apply microstrip antenna to form composite antenna which is more potent than the individual antenna. The last is growing towards highly integration of antenna/array and feeding network or operating at relatively high frequencies, like sub-millimeter wave or terahertz (THz) wave regime, by using the advanced machining techniques. To support our points of view, some examples of antennas developed in our group are presented and discussed.
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