Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 8, Issue 32, Pages 20962-20968Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b02893
Keywords
CuO; nanosheet; hydrogen sulfide; hydrothermal method; gas sensor
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- China Academy of Engineering Physics [U1330108]
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Porous CuO nanosheets were prepared on alumina tubes using a facile hydrothermal method, and their morphology, microstructure, and gas-sensing properties were investigated. The monoclinic CuO nanosheets had an average thickness of 62.5 nm and were embedded with numerous holes with diameters ranging from 5 to 17 nm. The porous CuO nanosheets were used to fabricate gas sensors to detect hydrogen sulfide (H2S) operating at room temperature. The sensor showed a good response sensitivity of 1.25 with respond/recovery times of 234 and 76 s, respectively, when tested with the H2S concentrations as low as 10 ppb. It also showed a remarkably high selectivity to the H2S, but only minor responses to other gases such as SO2 NO, NO2, H-2, CO, and C2H5OH. The working principle of the porous CuO nanosheet based sensor to detect the H2S was identified to be the phase transition from semiconducting CuO to a metallic conducting CuS.
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