Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 354, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2021.131220
Keywords
SnO2 nanosheet; Xylene sensor; Pt decoration; Oxygen defects; Fermi level
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21601094, 21401139, 21271139]
- Tianjin Municipal Education Commission [2018KJ271]
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Hierarchical SnO2 microflowers assembled by polycrystalline nanosheets were successfully synthesized and decorated with Pt nanoparticles to improve gas sensing properties. Pt/SnO2 nanosheets exhibited higher response value and shorter response/recovery time compared to pure SnO2, attributed to the unique hierarchical structure and abundant oxygen defects induced by Pt-decoration.
Hierarchical SnO2 microflowers assembled by polycrystalline nanosheets were successfully synthesized through a hydrothermal method and then decorated with Pt nanoparticles via a facile deposition-calcination process. The structure, morphology, chemical component, specific surface area, surface defect, optical bandgap, and work function of pure SnO2 and Pt/SnO2 nanosheets were characterized, respectively. Compared with pure SnO2, increased oxygen defects and Fermi level were confirmed for Pt/SnO2 nanosheets. Taking xylene as a target molecule, gas sensing properties of both pure SnO2 and Pt/SnO2 were systematically investigated. Clearly, gas sensors based on these Pt/SnO2 nanosheets revealed lower optimum operating temperature (200 degrees C) than that of pure SnO2 (260 degrees C). In particular, the optimal Pt capacity of 0.5% in atomic ratio (named as 0.5% Pt/SnO2) exhibited the higher response value (S-r = 154.0) to 200 ppm xylene at 200 degrees C that is nearly 90 times higher than that of pure SnO2 (S-r = 1.7), and the shorter response/recovery time (29 s and 47 s) than that of pure SnO2 (124 s and 249 s). The excellent xylene sensing performance is mainly attributed to the unique hierarchical structure, abundant oxygen defects, as well as Pt-decoration induced chemical and electronic sensitization.
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