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Researchers are therefore putting effort into developing novel and sensitive devices. In this work, we have fabricated an electro-chemical sensor in the form of a field effect transistor (FET) to detect formaldehyde over a wide range (10 nM to 1 mM). For this, ZnO nanosheets (NS) were first synthesized by hydrothermal method with in-situ deposition on cleaned SiO2\/Si (100) substrate. The synthesized materials were characterized for morphology and purity and surface area (31.718 m2\/g). The developed device was tested for formaldehyde detection at room temperature that resulted in a linear (96%) and reproducible response with concentration, sensitivity value of 0.27 mA\/M\/cm2 with an error of \u00b12% and limit of detection (LOD) as 210 nM.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma12020250","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,14]],"date-time":"2019-01-14T12:20:07Z","timestamp":1547468407000},"page":"250","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Highly Sensitive Formaldehyde Detection Using Well-Aligned Zinc Oxide Nanosheets Synthesized by Chemical Bath Deposition Technique"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Eun-Bi","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chemical Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1610-087X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hyung-Kee","family":"Seo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chemical Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1013","DOI":"10.1007\/s12274-011-0160-7","article-title":"One-dimensional ZnO nanostructures: Solution growth and functional properties","volume":"4","author":"Xu","year":"2011","journal-title":"Nano Res."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1561","DOI":"10.1166\/jnn.2005.182","article-title":"Zinc Oxide Nanostructures: Synthesis and Properties","volume":"5","author":"Fan","year":"2005","journal-title":"J. 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