Journal
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B-ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL SOLID-STATE MATERIALS
Volume 227, Issue -, Pages 61-67Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mseb.2017.10.012
Keywords
Nanocomposites; Gas sensors; Ammonia; Response time; Sensor response
Funding
- UGC-UPE-FAR [23/UGC/UPE/FAR/OU/2014]
- DST, New Delhi, India
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Pure ZnO nanoparticles (NPs), ZnO/CuO and Al-ZnO/CuO nanocomposites (NCs) were prepared using co-precipitation followed by sol gel method. The structural and morphological properties of resulting materials were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), micro Raman, high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) respectively. The XRD results confirmed that the ZnO-CuO composite is formed without the presence of any ZnO-CuO alloy. The gas sensing performance of pure ZnO, ZnO/CuO and Al-ZnO/CuO nanocomposites towards ammonia gas at room temperature was investigated. The gas sensing results revealed that the Al-ZnO/CuO nanocomposite based gas sensor has superior gas sensing properties like, high response, good stability, and fast response (14 s) and recovery (9 s) time towards 500 ppm (parts per million) ammonia gas at room temperature compared to pure ZnO and ZnO/CuO based sensors. Further the gas sensing performance of Al-ZnO/CuO sensor towards different volatile organic compound (VOC) gases was tested.
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