Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 329, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2020.129145
Keywords
NO2 sensor; Morphology-dependent; ZnO; UV; Room temperature
Funding
- National Nature Science Foundation of China [61871198, 61474057, 61520106003]
- National key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFC0201002]
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Three different ZnO nanostructures (nanorods/flowers/spheres) were prepared using hydrothermal method or water bath, and their sensing properties to NO2 activated by UV light were investigated. The nanospheres showed the highest response due to their largest specific surface area, while the nanorods exhibited the fastest response and recovery speeds. The nanoflowers performed in between the nanorods and nanospheres in terms of gas-sensing response and response speed.
Three different ZnO nanostructures (nanorods/flowers/spheres) were prepared through facile hydrothermal method or water bath, whose sensing properties to NO2 were investigated in detail at room temperature activated by UV light (365 nm LED). The sensing results showed that ZnO nanospheres exhibit the highest response of 29.4-5 ppm NO2, which can be attributed to their biggest specific surface area and the most amount of adsorbed oxygen species on the surface. In contrast, ZnO nanorods show the fastest response and recovery speed (9 and 18 s to 5 ppm NO2, respectively) due to their highest crystallinity, least surface defects and unidirectional electron transfer path, which is much faster than most reported literatures. With regard to the ZnO nanoflowers, both the gas-sensing response and the response and recovery speed are between ZnO nanorods and ZnO nanospheres. Furthermore, the stability, selectivity, and the moisture resistance of three different ZnO nanostructures were also researched.
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