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Recent advances of emerging tin disulfide for room temperature gas sensing

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Effectively monitoring of hazardous gases has become increasingly important for ecological environment and human health. As an emerging component of two-dimensional materials, layered metal dichalcogenides are gaining significant attention due to their unique physical and chemical properties, thus catering well to the gas sensing application. Particularly, tin disulfide (SnS2) has been widely examined recently owing to its low-cost, earth-abundant, and environmental friendliness features, which meet the requirements of advanced sensing platforms. Herein, the booming research advancements of SnS2-based gas sensors have been presented. Firstly, the basic attributes of SnS2 and its ability to detect various hazardous gases are introduced. Secondly, innovative approaches that have demonstrated the effectiveness of improving the room temperature sensing performance of SnS2 are summarized. Finally, the major challenges and future opportunities of SnS2 are also outlined. It is ultimately expected that this timely review could offer guidance for designing high-performance gas sensing materials and further push forward their potential applications.

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有毒有害气体的高效检测对于生态环境和人体健康至关重要。层状金属硫族化合物因其独特的物理化学特性在气体传感领域引起广泛关注。其中，二硫化锡（SnS2）具有成本低、储量丰富、环境友好等特点，近年来成为研究热点之一。本文系统总结了SnS2材料在气体传感领域的最新进展，介绍了SnS2的基本特性及气体传感机理，列举了改善其室温传感性能的有效策略，包括形貌调控，缺陷工程，构建异质结构以及外部光照辅助等，并对其在传感应用中的潜在挑战和未来发展趋势进行展望。

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This work was financially supported by the Reform and Development Fund Project of Local University supported by the Central Government, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21771060), Heilongjiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. LH2023B021), the Basic Scientific Research Expenses of Colleges and Universities in Heilongjiang Province (No. 2022-KYYWF-1106) and New Era Excellent Master’s and Doctoral Dissertations of Heilongjiang Province (No. LJYXL2022-019).

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Wang, TT., Xing, BS., Guo, CY. et al. Recent advances of emerging tin disulfide for room temperature gas sensing. Rare Met. 42, 3897–3913 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-023-02484-w

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