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Acetone sensor based on porous nickel ferrite nanoparticles

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In this work, porous nanoparticles of nickel ferrite were synthesized by a facile hydrothermal approach. By using glass substrates, a low-cost sensor was fabricated based on this nanostructure to detect acetone. The structural and morphological characteristics were investigated by X-Ray diffraction (XRD), Field Emission Electron Microscopy (FESEM), Energy Dispersive X-Ray (EDX), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) techniques. The sensing properties were evaluated at different temperatures and acetone concentrations. The results show that the fabricated n-type sensor has a high response value (78%) toward 100 ppm acetone at the optimum operating temperature of 190 °C. Furthermore, it shows excellent repeatability and long-term stability. The sensor is easily reversible and the response time is 30 s. The measurements show that the sensor has n-type sensing behavior. Eventually, the gas sensing mechanism to detect acetone vapor can be explained based on the physics of chemical sensors. Overall, the presented acetone sensor has many advantages including low-cost fabrication, excellent repeatability, long-term stability, easy recovery, and also low consumption power due to relatively low operating temperature.

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  1. Faculty of Advanced Technologies, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

    Amin Rezaeipour & Sajjad Dehghani

  2. Physics Department, Higher Education Center of Eghlid, Eghlid, Iran

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. AR: conceptualization, formal analysis and investigation, experimental design, writing original draft, validation. SD: conceptualization, methodology, writing review and editing, resources, supervision. SH: conceptualization and methodology, materials preparation, data collection and analysis, resources, supervision. all authors read and approved the manuscript.

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Rezaeipour, A., Dehghani, S. & Hoghoghifard, S. Acetone sensor based on porous nickel ferrite nanoparticles. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 26276–26285 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-09311-5

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