Room temperature triethylamine sensing properties of polyaniline–WO3 nanocomposites with p–n heterojunctions

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 2687-2694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shouli Bai ◽  
Yaqiang Ma ◽  
Ruixian Luo ◽  
Aifan Chen ◽  
Dianqing Li

A smart sensor based on PANI–WO3 nanocomposite loaded on PET thin film not only exhibits high sensitivity and selectivity to triethylamine at room temperature, but also has flexibility, simple fabrication and portable characters.

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (92) ◽  
pp. 75098-75104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinghua Chang ◽  
Mi Peng ◽  
Junfeng Yang ◽  
Teng Wang ◽  
Yu liu ◽  
...  

A light activated miniature formaldehyde sensor working at room temperature is fabricated by CdSO4 modified ZnO nanoparticles.


2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1531-1538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peihua Zhu ◽  
Yucheng Wang ◽  
Pan Ma ◽  
Feifei Song ◽  
Xinyu Han ◽  
...  

Nanotubes of compound 2 showed high sensitivity to NO2, revealing that a molecular packing mode can tune gas sensing properties.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (21) ◽  
pp. 6475
Author(s):  
Jiahui Guo ◽  
Weiwei Li ◽  
Xuanliang Zhao ◽  
Haowen Hu ◽  
Min Wang ◽  
...  

Semiconducting metal oxides can detect low concentrations of NO2 and other toxic gases, which have been widely investigated in the field of gas sensors. However, most studies on the gas sensing properties of these materials are carried out at high temperatures. In this work, Hollow SnO2 nanofibers were successfully synthesized by electrospinning and calcination, followed by surface modification using ZnO to improve the sensitivity of the SnO2 nanofibers sensor to NO2 gas. The gas sensing behavior of SnO2/ZnO sensors was then investigated at room temperature (~20 °C). The results showed that SnO2/ZnO nanocomposites exhibited high sensitivity and selectivity to 0.5 ppm of NO2 gas with a response value of 336%, which was much higher than that of pure SnO2 (13%). In addition to the increase in the specific surface area of SnO2/ZnO-3 compared with pure SnO2, it also had a positive impact on the detection sensitivity. This increase was attributed to the heterojunction effect and the selective NO2 physisorption sensing mechanism of SnO2/ZnO nanocomposites. In addition, patterned electrodes of silver paste were printed on different flexible substrates, such as paper, polyethylene terephthalate and polydimethylsiloxane using a facile screen-printing process. Silver electrodes were integrated with SnO2/ZnO into a flexible wearable sensor array, which could detect 0.1 ppm NO2 gas after 10,000 bending cycles. The findings of this study therefore open a general approach for the fabrication of flexible devices for gas detection applications.


2020 ◽  
Vol 240 ◽  
pp. 122265 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Manikandan ◽  
Monika Singh ◽  
B.C. Yadav ◽  
R.S. Mane ◽  
S. Vigneselvan ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Satyajit Shukla ◽  
Larry Ludwig ◽  
Hyoung J. Cho ◽  
Sudipta Seal

Micro hydrogen sensor with interdigitated electrodes and indium doped nanopolycrystalline SnO2 particles was fabricated and tested. Giant sensitivity as high as 105 with good repeatability and recovery was observed. The sensor showed an excellant selectivity of hydrogen (H2) sensing over helium (He).


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