Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 255, Issue -, Pages 3564-3575Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2017.09.193
Keywords
Toluene; Mesoporosity; g-C3N4; Response; Nanocasting
Funding
- INST, DST, Govt. of India
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- CSIR, India [03/(1377)/16/EMR-II]
- DST-Nano Mission [SR/NM/NT-06/2016]
- DST-SERB [ECR/2016/001469]
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Low temperature gas sensors for monitoring low ppm volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in indoor climate have critical advantages in designing portable sensing devices. Herein, a highly sensitive as well as fast response In(III)-SnO2 loaded cubic mesoporous mpg-CN (commonly known as g-C3N4) based toluene gas sensor has been fabricated through template inversion of KIT-6. When exposed to a variety of test VOCs at 200 degrees C, the In(III)-SnO(2)mpg-CN (1% In) showed a highly selective response (R-a/R-g = 61.4) and fast reversible response/recovery (4/2 s) to 50 ppm toluene gas. The sensor was also able to selectively detect 50 ppm (R = 2.4) and 100 ppm (R=3.6) toluene gas at 90 degrees C. Compared to mesoporous In(III)-SnO2, the mpg-CN supported In(III)-SnO2 nanocomposite shows similar to 2 fold increase in response to toluene gas while reducing the optimized operating temperature by 50 degrees C. The significant enhancement in sensitivity and lowering down of optimized operating temperature is attributed to the higher surface area, easily accessible mesopore channels of 3D mesoporous cubic structure and suitable heterojunction formation by the semiconducting In(III)-SnO(2)mpg-CN nanocomposite. The findings reported in this study shows promising glimpse for designing a novel strategy to the development of ultrasensitive VOCs sensors working at low operating temperature. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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