Nanowires Assembled SnO2 Nanopolyhedrons with Enhanced Gas Sensing Properties
- 13 May 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- Vol. 3 (6), 2112-2117
- https://doi.org/10.1021/am2003312
Abstract
Self-assembly of one-dimensional nanoscale building blocks into functional 2-D or 3-D complex superstructures has stimulated a great deal of interest. We report the synthesis and characterization of nanopolyhedrons assembled from ultrathin SnO(2) nanowires based on the sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-assisted hydrothermal process. As-synthesized SnO(2) nanopolyhedrons have uniform diameters around 300 nm and are self-assembled by numerous ultrathin SnO(2) nanowires with diameters of 5-10 nm. The growth mechanism was also studied by investigating the samples synthesized at different reaction time. Thin films of the assembled SnO(2) nanopolyhedrons were configured as high performance sensors to detect methanol, ethanol, and acetone, which exhibited 1 ppm sensitivity, very fast response and recovery times (several seconds for different gases with concentrations of 1-200 ppm) to all the target gases and highly selective detection to acetone.Keywords
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