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Synthesis of WO3 and its gas sensing: a review

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As a typical n-type semiconductor, WO3 is considered to be the promising material to fabricate the gas sensor, which has a widespread utilization in the environment detecting and the safety monitoring. This review details the different structures of WO3 synthesized in recent studies, classifying them into five sections according to their dimensionality, then elucidates the research progress of the gas sensitivity towards H2, CO, H2S, NH3, NOx, O3 as well as some organic gases, based on which two models are proposed to explain the corresponding gas sensing mechanisms. Besides these, some unsolved problems and possible future directions are also discussed.

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This work was supported in part by National Natural Science of China (Nos. 51202302, 51277185), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. CDJZR12130051), Chongqing Graduate Student Research Innovation Project (No. CYS14011) and Postdoctoral Science Funded Project of Chongqing (No. Xm201301).

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Long, H., Zeng, W. & Zhang, H. Synthesis of WO3 and its gas sensing: a review. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 26, 4698–4707 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-015-2896-4

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