1. Oxygen vacancy modulation of commercial SnO2 by an organometallic chemistry-assisted strategy for boosting acetone sensing performances.
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Liu, Sen, Gao, Shang, Wang, Ziying, Fei, Teng, and Zhang, Tong
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ACETONE , *OXYGEN , *METALLIC oxides , *ENERGY storage , *ORGANOMETALLIC chemistry - Abstract
• SnO 2 samples with controllable oxygen vacancy concentration have been developed by organometallic chemistry-assisted strategy. • The SnO 2 samples with high oxygen vacancy concentration exhibit excellent sensing performances for detection of acetone. • This work paves a new avenue for fabricating metal oxides with controllable oxygen vacancies for various applications. Oxygen vacancies play a critical role in the sensing performances for metal oxides-based chemiresistor-type sensors. Developing facile and effective strategies for fabricating metal oxides with controllable oxygen vacancies is in great demand but remains paramount challenge. Herein, a novel organometallic chemistry-assisted method is reported to prepare SnO 2 samples containing controllable surface oxygen vacancies. This new approach combines modification of SnO 2 with dimethyltin dichloride, and subsequently thermal treatment in air atmosphere. Taking commercial SnO 2 as an example, it is found that the optimized SnO 2 sample possesses highest surface oxygen vacancy concentration of 37.13%. Owing to increased oxygen vacancy concentration, the resulting SnO 2 sample (SnO 2 -Sn-0.5) presents excellent sensing performances for detection of acetone, including high response, fast response and recovery rate, good selectivity, compared with pristine SnO 2 with low oxygen vacancy concentration (28.66%). This work paves a new avenue for fabricating metal oxides with controllable oxygen vacancies for various applications of sensing, energy storage, and so on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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