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On the way to advance the sensing technology, various strategies based on the nano-materials have been introduced to improve the performance of the gas sensors. In this study, we have introduced a facile fabrication procedure for annealing hematite to monitor ethanol gas. Due to large specific area of this conductive platform, more available target molecules (ethanol gas) are detected. To construct this platform, initially, a large scale well-separated iron oxide (hematite) nanostructures are created via an annealing process. The morphology of the nanostructure is optimized through annealing temperature and operating temperature for ethanol gas. The best response for the gas sensor is achieved for hematite nanostructures fabricated through the annealing temperature of 500{\deg}C and the operating temperature of 225$^\circ$C. The fabricated nanostructures is tested in air ambient conditions for various ethanol gas concentrations from 50 to 1000 ppm. The modified sensor exhibited acceptable reproducibility and good selectivity with no interference-effect. To examine the X-ray diffraction patterns of hematite nanostructures at three annealed temperatures, the Rietveld method and FullProf software are used in which the average crystal size has been obtained. Obviously, with increasing the annealing temperature, the average size of the crystals has been increased. The results of ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy show that the energy gap decreased with increasing annealing temperature. The maximum sensing response of hematite flower-like nanostructures is obtained at a concentration of 1000 ppm. Also, the shortest response time is estimated at about 27 seconds for ethanol at a concentration of 200 ppm. The detection limit of this sensor is obtained at 50 ppm.

Let $s$ be a positive integer. A graph is $s$-transitive if its automorphism group is transitive on s-arcs but not on $(s + 1)$-arcs. In this paper, we study all tetravalent s-transitive graphs of order $6p^2$.

A graph is vertex-transitive if its automorphism group acts transitively on vertices of the graph. A vertex-transitive graph is a Cayley graph if its automorphism group contains a subgroup acting regularly on its vertices. In this paper, the tetravalent vertex-transitive non-Cayley graphs of order $6p$ are classified for each prime $p$.

A graph is one-regular if its automorphism group acts regularly on the set of its arcs. In this paper, $4$-valent one-regular graphs of order $5p^2$, where $p$ is a prime, are classified

Let $G$ be a finite group and ${\rm cd}(G)$ will be the set of the degrees of the complex irreducible characters of $G$. Also let ${\rm cod}(G)$ be the set of codegrees of the irreducible characters of $G$. The Taketa problem conjectures if $G$ is solvable, then ${\rm dl}(G) \leq |{\rm cd}(G)|$, where ${\rm dl}(G)$ is the derived length of $G$. In this note, we show that ${\rm dl}(G) \leq |{\rm cod}(G)|$ in some cases and we conjecture that this inequality holds if $G$ is a finite solvable group., Comment: There is a mistake in the proof of lemma 3.1

In this note we verify the equivalent version of Huppert's conjecture for $K_3$-groups.

For a graph $G$, $k(G)$ denotes its connectivity. A graph is super connected if every minimum vertex-cut isolates a vertex. Also $k_{1}$-connectivity of a connected graph is the minimum number of vertices whose deletion gives a disconnected graph without isolated vertices. This paper provides bounds for the super connectivity and $k_{1}$-connectivity of the lexicographic product of two graphs.

A graph $\Gamma$ is said to be a semi-Cayley graph over a group $G$ if it admits $G$ as a semiregular automorphism group with two orbits of equal size. We say that $\Gamma$ is normal if $G$ is a normal subgroup of ${\rm Aut}(\Gamma)$. We prove that every connected intransitive one-matching semi-Cayley graph, with maximum degree three, over a finite abelian group is normal and characterize all such non-normal graphs., Comment: 10 pages