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Sulfur dioxide gas sensing at room temperature based on tin selenium/tin dioxide hybrid prepared via hydrothermal and surface oxidation treatment

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In this paper, a novel SnSe/SnO2 nanoparticles (NPs) composite has been successfully fabricated through hydrothermal method and surface oxidation treatment. The as-prepared sample was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). A series of morphological and structural characteristics confirm that the SnSe/SnO2 NPs composite shows a core–shell structure with a SnO2 shell with thickness of 6 nm. The prepared SnO2 NPs and SnSe/SnO2 NPs composite were applied as gas-sensing materials, and their gas-sensing properties were investigated at room temperature systematically. Experimental results show that the response value of the SnSe/SnO2 composite sensor toward 100 × 10–6 SO2 is 15.15%, which is 1.32 times higher than that of pristine SnSe (11.43%). And the SnSe/SnO2 composite sensor also has a detection limit as low as 74 × 10–9 and an ultra-fast response speed. The enhanced gas-sensing performance is attributed to the formation of p–n heterojunction between SnSe and SnO2 and the appropriate SnO2 shell thickness.

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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51777215), and the Key Laboratory of Engineering Dielectrics and Its Application (Harbin University of Science and Technology), Ministry of Education (No. KFZ1801).

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Pan, QN., Yang, ZM., Wang, WW. et al. Sulfur dioxide gas sensing at room temperature based on tin selenium/tin dioxide hybrid prepared via hydrothermal and surface oxidation treatment. Rare Met. 40, 1588–1596 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-020-01575-2

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