1. Sulfonated graphene anchored with tin oxide nanoparticles for detection of nitrogen dioxide at room temperature with enhanced sensing performances.
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Liu, Sen, Wang, Ziying, Zhang, Yong, Li, Jiacheng, and Zhang, Tong
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SULFONATION , *X-ray diffraction , *X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy , *NANOPARTICLES , *STANNIC oxide - Abstract
The development of graphene-based room temperature gas sensors has drawn massive attention due to their unique advantage of gas sensing at room temperature. In this paper, in pursuit of developing high-performance graphene-based gas sensors, a NO 2 gas sensor has been successfully fabricated using sulfonated reduced graphene oxide (S-rGO) anchoring with SnO 2 nanoparticles as sensing materials. The SnO 2 nanoparticles modified S-rGO (SnO 2 /S-rGO) hybrids were prepared by deposition of SnO 2 nanoparticles on the surface of S-rGO through hydrothermal synthesis method. The combined characterizations of X-ray diffraction, UV–vis spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, as well as N 2 sorption isotherm indicate the successful preparation of SnO 2 /S-rGO hybrids with porous structure. Most importantly, SnO 2 /S-rGO hybrids exhibit good sensing performances for detection of NO 2 at room temperature, such as high response, fast response and recovery rate, and good selectivity. The sensor based on SnO 2 /S-rGO hybrids exhibits better sensing performances than the previously reported rGO-based gas sensors. Furthermore, the excellent sensing performances of sensor based on SnO 2 /S-rGO also render it suitable for development of high performance gas sensors operated at room temperature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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