WS2奈米管有著許多優點，像是良好的潤滑性與熱穩定性、無毒、高模數等優點，使其可以應用於複合材料的強化項添加增加其潤滑性等應用；在先前已經有學者將奈米碳管應用於場效電晶體所製造的生醫感測器，改善其感測靈敏度及準確性，發現加入奈米碳管確實可以提升感測度與準確性。
本研究中，流化床反應爐的架設是必須的，為了達到這個目標，首先我們以CAD軟體進行流化床的外型與爐體內部的流場模擬；當流化床反應器架設完成後，測試製造WS2奈米管的最佳參數組合；本實驗中，對奈米管成型影響最大的參數是氫氣濃度與溫度；因此在實驗中會以此二參數作為主軸，測試何種參數組合可以生產出品質較佳的奈米管；製造出優質的WS2無機奈米管是本實驗的最大目標。
在本實驗中所探討的WS2奈米管製造參數，包含了不同的反應時間、反應溫度、Forming Gas 的氫氣濃度，以及Forming Gas之流速；結果發現Forming Gas的氫氣濃度由5%降低至1%對於奈米管的增長有決定性的影響，由原先的1um增長至5um；反應溫度由800℃提高至840℃也同樣可以看出奈米顆粒有明顯的增長現象；但將所製造出之奈米管進行TEM分析時，卻有硫化層不足的現象，因此將反應時間拉長後，應能得到較多硫化層的WS2奈米管。
在得到降低氫氣濃度與增加反應溫度可以增長奈米管的結果後，嘗試同時將氫氣濃度減低至1%以下以及將反應溫度增高至900℃後發現奈米管長度急遽的增長至數十微米，但奈米管直徑卻也隨之增加到1~2um了；顯現本反應爐未給予奈米管特定生長方向的驅動力，導致此結果。
基於奈米管的沉積可以改善生醫感測器電極表面積的假設，將奈米管結合普魯士藍，對於電極表面進行改質，以達到增強電極抓取鉀離子的目標。
在經過四個階段不同的測試，分別是空白碳電極、空白碳電極加上普魯士藍、空白碳電極加上WS2奈米管以及空白碳電極加上WS2奈米管再加上普魯士藍，將上述不上普魯士藍的兩種電極利用變化掃描速率的循環伏安法檢測後計算電極表面積，發現相較於只沉積普魯士藍的電極，沉積奈米管及普魯士藍的電極在電流訊號反饋的峰值並無明顯增加，可能是WS2奈米管沉積的失敗或是WS2奈米管的驅動電位大循環伏安法的電壓掃描範圍，阻礙了電流訊號的反饋。

WS2 nanotube have several advantages, such as low friction coefficient, thermal stability, and high modulus of elasticity. Such properties allowed composite materials have better performance in lubrication by adding WS2 as reinforcement. In previous research, WS2 nanotube was treated as gate in the FET, and also investigated to improve the biosensor’s sensitivity and accuracy substituting carbon nanotubes (CNTs).
In this research, Fluidized Bed Reactor was constructed. CAD and CAE software were used to design the structure and simulate the flow regime inside the reactor, respectively. The synthesis was started after reactor construction had been finish. The parameters like Hydrogen concentration and reaction temperature was tested to specify the best condition for synthesis of WS2 INTs. Synthesis parameters discussed in this research includes reaction time, reaction temperature, hydrogen concentration of forming gas, and flow rate of forming gas. During synthesis nanotubes were elongated when the concentration of H2 decrease from 5% to 1%. This factor showed huge effect on the shape of nanotubes that caused nanotubes to be elongated from 1 µm to 5 µm. The reaction temperature also affects elongation of nanotube when temperature increased from 800℃ to 840℃. However, TEM analysis shows nanorod instead of nanotube, and the sulfur layers were less than expected. But due to this result,
This research has proposed a hypothesis: Deposition of nanotubes onto electrode can increase sensing area of electrode. Prussian blue has highly sensitivity toward Potassium. Combine the Prussian blue and nanotubes to modify the electrode improving the sensitivity of electrode.
In this research, four types of electrode are produced and tested; i.e. blank electrode, blank electrode + WS2 nanotubes, blank electrode + Prussian Blue and blank electrode + Prussian blue + WS2 nanotubes. The sensitivity and sensing area will be tested and calculated by CV method. However, the results showed that WS2 nanotubes cannot improve the sensitivity due to unsuccessful deposition of WS2 nanotubes or too high WS2 nanotube’s driving voltage which is out of the scope of this experiment.

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