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Humidity and selective oxygen detection by Ag2S nanoparticles gas sensor

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We report selective oxygen detection by Ag2S nanoparticles gas and humidity sensor at low temperatures with high sensitivity. The Ag2S nanoparticles with preferentially oriented plane (−112) and texture coefficient ~ 1.49 were synthesized by co-precipitation technique. The bandgap and surface area of Ag2S nanoparticles was 2.03 eV and 16.30 m2/g respectively. The response of Ag2S nanoparticles to detect different concentrations of oxygen, LPG, methanol, ethanol and 1-butanol at different temperatures (24–160 °C) was investigated. The Ag2S nanoparticles exhibited a linear relationship between response versus concentration at different temperatures for the tested gases. However, the Ag2S nanoparticles exhibited high response, shortest response/recovery time, good stability and recyclability to oxygen as compared to other tested gases at 160 °C. At room temperature the response of the Ag2S nanoparticles relative humidity (RH) sensor increased linearly with increase in RH. Ag2S nanoparticles as RH sensors also exhibited high response, short response/recovery time, good stability and recyclability.

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Acknowledgements

M. F. Afsar would like to admit the HEC (Higher Education Commission of Pakistan) for the financial support through IRSIP (International Research Initiative Program). Authors are grateful to Dr. Tay Yee Yan for his help in TEM analysis (Nanyang Technological University Singapore). M. A. Rafiq would like to acknowledge the financial support from HEC under NRPU (National Research Program for Universities) Project No 3662. Funding was provided by CAS.

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  1. Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad, 45650, Pakistan

    M. F. Afsar & M. A. Rafiq

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

    M. F. Afsar & A. I. Y. Tok

  3. State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    M. A. Rafiq, Chuanbo Li & Buwen Cheng

  4. School of Science, Minzu University of China, Beijing, 100081, China

    Chuanbo Li

  5. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Xiulai Xu

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Afsar, M.F., Rafiq, M.A., Tok, A.I.Y. et al. Humidity and selective oxygen detection by Ag2S nanoparticles gas sensor. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 30, 10117–10127 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-019-01347-4

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