Boosting Ethylene Glycol Sensing Performance with Dendritic Hierarchical CuO/Co3O4 Heterojunction Nanowire

  • Chen Su
  • , Mingyu Li
  • , Yongfeng Zhang
  • , Tianqing Liu
  • , Cong Ren
  • , Peipei Li
  • , Xiaoqiang Yin
  • , Lu Zhang*
  • , Min Zhang*
  • , Weiwei Wu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Heterostructures comprising metal oxide semiconductors (MOSs) have proven to be effective techniques in the development of high-performance gas sensors. In this study, we developed a feasible hydrothermal technique for the synthesis of a hierarchical dendritic CuO/Co3O4 nanowire heterostructure, which exhibits a strong affinity for ethylene glycol (EG) adsorption. The resulting gas sensor, based on a hierarchical CuO/Co3O4 heterostructure, has an exceptionally high response (6.3) to 100 ppm EG at 130 °C. The enhanced sensing performance toward EG can be attributed to the formation of a unique CuO/Co3O4 core-shell heterojunction structure. The mechanism behind this enhanced performance is explained by the heterojunction-depletion model, which takes into account precise band alignments. This study serves as inspiration for the design of various p-p heterojunctions in the development of high-performance gas sensors. A feasible hydrothermal technique was developed for obtaining a hierarchical dendritic CuO/Co3O4 nanowire heterostructure with high EG gas sensing performance.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)19249-19256
Number of pages8
JournalACS Applied Nano Materials
Volume6
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Oct 2023

Keywords

  • CuO/CoO nanomaterial
  • ethylene glycol
  • gas sensor
  • heterojunction
  • hierarchical nanostructure

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