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Sensors 2012, 12, 13842-13851; doi:10.3390/s121013842 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Synthesis of ZnO Nanostructures for Low Temperature CO and UV Sensing Muhammad Amin 1, Umair Manzoor 2,3,*, Mohammad Islam 4, Arshad Saleem Bhatti 3 and 1 Nazar Abbas Shah 1 Thin Films Technology Laboratory, Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan; E-Mails: aminislamabad@ (M.A.); nazar_abbas@.pk (N.A.S.) 2 Alamoudi Water Chair, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia 3 Centre for Micro Nano Devices, Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan; E-Mail: asbhatti@.pk 4 Center of Excellence for Research in Engineering Materials (CEREM), King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia; E-Mail: miqureshi@.sa * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: umanzoor@.sa; Tel.: +96-658-279-1919; Fax: +96-61-467-3739. Received: 26 August 2012; in revised form: 10 October 2012 / Accepted: 10 October 2012 / Published: 16 October 2012 Abstract: In this paper, synthesis and results of the low temperature sensing of carbon monoxide (CO) gas and room temperature UV sensors using one dimensional (1-D) ZnO nanostructures are presented. Comb-like structures, belts and rods, and needle-shaped nanobelts were synthesized by varying synthesis temperature using a vapor transport method. Needle-like ZnO nan