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The Effect of the Working Electrode Material Based on Pt/SnO2(Sb) on the Properties of Hydrogen and Carbon-Monoxide Sensors

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The effect of the platinum content (3–10 wt %) in the Pt/SnO2(Sb)-based working-electrode material on the properties (sensitivity, high-speed performance, recovery time) of solid-state potentiometric gas sensors for hydrogen and carbon monoxide including their simultaneous presence in air is studied. Sensors with 5% Pt demonstrate the best characteristics: the efficient carbon-monoxide detection for its concentration from 0.01 to 1 vol %; no effect of hydrogen present in the CO + air mixture in concentrations comparable with the CO concentration; the shortest relaxation time (~30 s at 1% CO).

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This study was carried out in the frames of the state project no. АААА-А19-119061890019-50. It was partly performed using the equipment of the Center on the Technologies of New and Mobile Power Sources at the Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Based on the materials of the 16th International Meeting “Fundamental Problems of Solid State Ionics,” Chernogolovka, June 27–July 3, 2022.

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Shmygleva, L.V., Starkov, A.V. & Leonova, L.S. The Effect of the Working Electrode Material Based on Pt/SnO2(Sb) on the Properties of Hydrogen and Carbon-Monoxide Sensors. Russ J Electrochem 59, 441–448 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S102319352306006X

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