Boosting Ethylene Glycol Sensing Performance with Dendritic Hierarchical CuO/Co3O4 Heterojunction Nanowire

Heterostructures comprising metal oxide semiconductors (MOSs) have proven to be effective techniques in the development of high-performance gas sensors. In this study, we developed a feasible hydrothermal technique for the synthesis of a hierarchical dendritic CuO/Co(3)O(4 )nanowire heterostructure, which exhibits a strong affinity for ethylene glycol (EG) adsorption. The resulting gas sensor, based on a hierarchical CuO/Co3O4 heterostructure, has an exceptionally high response (6.3) to 100 ppm EG at 130 C-degrees. The enhanced sensing performance toward EG can be attributed to the formation of a unique CuO/Co3O4 core-shell heterojunction structure. The mechanism behind this enhanced performance is explained by the heterojunction-depletion model, which takes into account precise band alignments. This study serves as inspiration for the design of various p-p heterojunctions in the development of high-performance gas sensors. A feasible hydrothermal technique was developed for obtaining a hierarchical dendritic CuO/Co3O4 nanowire heterostructure with high EG gas sensing performance.

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In this study, a hierarchical CuO/Co3O4 nanowire heterostructure was synthesized using a feasible hydrothermal technique, and a high-performance gas sensor with strong response to ethylene glycol was developed.