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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 639, Issue -, Pages 571-576Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.03.193
Keywords
SnO2-TiO2 nanobelt heterostructure; Gas sensor; Mechanism
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51402172, 51372142]
- Innovation Research Group [IRG: 51321091]
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Heterostructures constituted of SnO2 nanoparticles deposited on TiO2 nanobelt (SnO2 NP/TiO2 NB) or on surface-coarsened TiO2 nanobelts (SnO2 NP/TiO2 SNB) were successfully synthesized through a simple hydrothermal process. Using acetone as analyte, the performance of these two heterostructures as gas sensor were compared to a conventional SnO2 NP gas sensor. The SnO2 NP/TiO2 SNB heterostructure exhibited the best gas sensing performance in terms of sensitivity and response/recovery time. The high sensitivity of the SnO2/TiO2 SNB sensor originates from the large surface area offered by SnO2 NPs. The short response/recovery time is attributed to the high carrier transport speed along the long axis of the 1-dimensional TiO2 NB. We have thus demonstrated that the construction of a heterostructure leads to an improvement in the performance of a gas sensor, and we believe this strategy could be applied to many sensor devices. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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