Hierarchical Morphology-Dependent Gas-Sensing Performances of Three-Dimensional SnO2 Nanostructures

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• 作者：Yi-Xiang Li ; Zheng GuoYao Su ; Xiao-Bo Jin ; Xiang-Hu Tang ; Jia-Rui Huang ; Xing-Jiu Huang ; Min-Qiang Li ; Jin-Huai Liu
• 刊名：ACS Sensor
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 27, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：2
• 期：1
• 页码：102-110
• 全文大小：762K
• ISSN：2379-3694

文摘

Hierarchical morphology-dependent gas-sensing performances have been demonstrated for three-dimensional SnO₂ nanostructures. First, hierarchical SnO₂ nanostructures assembled with ultrathin shuttle-shaped nanosheets have been synthesized via a facile and one-step hydrothermal approach. Due to thermal instability of hierarchical nanosheets, they are gradually shrunk into cone-shaped nanostructures and finally deduced into rod-shaped ones under a thermal treatment. Given the intrinsic advantages of three-dimensional hierarchical nanostructures, their gas-sensing properties have been further explored. The results indicate that their sensing behaviors are greatly related with their hierarchical morphologies. Among the achieved hierarchical morphologies, three-dimensional cone-shaped hierarchical SnO₂ nanostructures display the highest relative response up to about 175 toward 100 ppm of acetone as an example. Furthermore, they also exhibit good sensing responses toward other typical volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Microstructured analyses suggest that these results are mainly ascribed to the formation of more active surface defects and mismatches for the cone-shaped hierarchical nanostructures during the process of thermal recrystallization. Promisingly, this surface-engineering strategy can be extended to prepare other three-dimensional metal oxide hierarchical nanostructures with good gas-sensing performances.