Journal
CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
Volume 43, Issue 8, Pages 5934-5940Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2017.01.101
Keywords
Flower-like morphology; Core-shell structure; ZnO/alpha-Fe2O3; Gas sensors
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51272086]
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This paper reports a facile two-step synthesis route for the preparation of flower-like ZnO/alpha-Fe2O3 nanorods (NRs). Flower-like ZnO NRs with the average diameter about 810 nm and length about 4.5 mu m were firstly synthesized via a chemical solution method, and then ZnO NRs was coated with a continuous alpha-Fe2O3 layer to form ZnO/alpha-Fe2O3 core-shell structure through an ionic-layer adsorption and reaction method. The gas-sensing results show that the ZnO/alpha-Fe2O3 NRs exhibit excellent sensitivity, selectivity, and response-recovery capacity to ethanol vapor at a low optimum temperature of 240 degrees C. In particular, compared with pure ZnO NRs and alpha-Fe2O3 nanoparticles (NPs), the ZnO/alpha-Fe2O3 NRs show an obvious improvement in gas sensing properties. The substantial improvement of sensing properties may be attributed to the unique microstructure and hetero-junction formed between ZnO and alpha-Fe2O3.
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