{"title":"SnO/SnO2 heterojunction: an alternative candidate for sensing NO2 with fast response at room temperature","authors":"Pengtao Wang, Wanyin Ge, Xiaohua Jia, Jingtao Huang, Xinmeng Zhang, Jing Lu","doi":"10.1007/s11706-022-0609-5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The SnO<sub>2</sub>-based family is a traditional but important gas-sensitive material. However, the requirement for high working temperature limits its practical application. Much work has been done to explore ways to improve its gas-sensing performance at room temperature (RT). For this report, SnO<sub>2</sub>, SnO, and SnO/SnO<sub>2</sub> heterojunction was successfully synthesized by a facile hydrothermal combined with subsequent calcination. Pure SnO<sub>2</sub> requires a high operating temperature (145 °C), while SnO/SnO<sub>2</sub> heterojunction exhibits an excellent performance for sensing NO<sub>2</sub> at RT. Moreover, SnO/SnO<sub>2</sub> exhibits a fast response, of 32 s, to 50 ppm NO<sub>2</sub> at RT (27 °C), which is much faster than that of SnO (139 s). The superior sensing properties of SnO/SnO<sub>2</sub> heterojunction are attributed to the unique hierarchical structures, large number of adsorption sites, and enhanced electron transport. Our results show that SnO/SnO<sub>2</sub> heterojunction can be used as a promising high-performance NO<sub>2</sub> sensitive material at RT.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":572,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Materials Science","volume":"16 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Frontiers of Materials Science","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11706-022-0609-5","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The SnO2-based family is a traditional but important gas-sensitive material. However, the requirement for high working temperature limits its practical application. Much work has been done to explore ways to improve its gas-sensing performance at room temperature (RT). For this report, SnO2, SnO, and SnO/SnO2 heterojunction was successfully synthesized by a facile hydrothermal combined with subsequent calcination. Pure SnO2 requires a high operating temperature (145 °C), while SnO/SnO2 heterojunction exhibits an excellent performance for sensing NO2 at RT. Moreover, SnO/SnO2 exhibits a fast response, of 32 s, to 50 ppm NO2 at RT (27 °C), which is much faster than that of SnO (139 s). The superior sensing properties of SnO/SnO2 heterojunction are attributed to the unique hierarchical structures, large number of adsorption sites, and enhanced electron transport. Our results show that SnO/SnO2 heterojunction can be used as a promising high-performance NO2 sensitive material at RT.
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Frontiers of Materials Science is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes high quality reviews/mini-reviews, full-length research papers, and short Communications recording the latest pioneering studies on all aspects of materials science. It aims at providing a forum to promote communication and exchange between scientists in the worldwide materials science community.
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Biomaterials including biomimetics and biomineralization;
Nano materials;
Polymers and composites;
New metallic materials;
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Materials modeling and computation;
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