期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 9, 期 43, 页码 38135-38145出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b11561
关键词
electrospinning; fibrous mat; ZnO; nanobushes; nanowires; ethanol sensor
资金
- Department of Biotechnology [BT/PR10437/PFN/20/779/2013]
- Department of Science and Technology, Government of India [SR/FST/ETI-284/2011(C)]
Ethanol serves as a biomarker as well as a chemical reagent for several applications and has been predominantly used as an alternative fuel (E10 and E85). Development of sensors for the detection and monitoring of ethanol vapor at lower operating temperatures has gathered momentum in the recent past. In this work, we reported the synthesis of self-assembled ZnO nanowires using electrospun technique without using any external surfactants or capping agents and their room temperature ethanol sensing properties. An inherent template namely monomer of the polymer poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) with two different molecular weights (14 000 and 140 000 g mol(-1)) was used along with the precursor zinc acetate dehydrate. The ZnO-PVA nanofibers have been tranformed to ZnO nanospheres and nanowires after calcination. The ratio of zinc precursor concentration to PVA polymer led to the enhanced carrier concentration of the resultant ZnO nanowire that enhanced, in turn, the sensing response toward ethanol vapor. The developed sensing elements have been systematically characterized to correlate their structural, morphological, and electrical properties with the respective room-temperature ethanol-sensing characteristics. The role of grain features and low activation energy of ZnO nanowires in coordination with the low dipole moment of ethanol resulted in the excellent response of 78 toward 100 ppm at room temperature with ultra-sensitive response and recovery times (9 and 12 s, respectively).
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