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Highly selective NH3 gas sensor based on polypyrrole/Ti3C2Tx nanocomposites operating at room temperature

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Semiconducting nanomaterials with different sizes and shapes have wide applications in the field of electronics, and one of the key pathway to improve their performance is by recombination of different materials. In our innovative work, the nanocomposites of polypyrrole (PPy) and MXene were prepared by a simple in situ polymerization reaction. The samples were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The samples were made into sensors, and the gas sensitivities of the materials were investigated under different test conditions. The results showed that the response value of PPy/MXene-12 sensor to 100 ppm ammonia at room temperature was 2.38 times than that of pure PPy and 6.38 times than that of pure MXene. In addition, the sensor has excellent selectivity and low detection limit, which demonstrate the excellent practicability of them in the field of Internet of Things (IoT).

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province (No. 202300410112) and Youth Backbone Teacher Training Program of Henan University of Technology (No. 21420154).

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    Pu Chen, Zhigang Shao, Bo Huang & Xiaoqing Shen

  2. College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, 450052, China

    Zhihua Zhao, Ye Tian, Bo Li & Shuaiwen Zhang

  3. Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, CNRS UPR 8241, University of Toulouse, 205 Route de Narbonne, 31077, Toulouse, France

    Zhigang Shao

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ZZ and XS conceived the project, designed the experiments, and wrote the manuscript. PC, ZS, Y.T., BL, BH, SZ, and CL performed the experiments and analyzed the data. All authors participated in manuscript revisions, discussions, and data interpretation.

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Chen, P., Zhao, Z., Shao, Z. et al. Highly selective NH3 gas sensor based on polypyrrole/Ti3C2Tx nanocomposites operating at room temperature. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 6168–6177 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-07792-y

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