Latest ArticlesMonodispersed ZnSnO3 microspheres are successfully prepared via a facile microwave-assisted method together with subsequently calcination treatment. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) results indicate that the structure of the products shifted from crystalline to amorphous under high-temperature treatments. Field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) and the transmission electron microscope (TEM) observations demonstrate that the as-obtained products are composed of uniform microspheres with rough surfaces and the mean diameter is measured as ~700 nm. Moreover, the morphology of ZnSnO3 microspheres can be well controlled by adjusting the ratio of Zn2+ and Sn4+. The gas sensing properties of ZnSnO3 microspheres with different ratios of Zn2+/Sn4+ are investigated. Our results indicate that the ZnSnO3 microspheres exhibit good selectivity and high sensitivity towards ethanol at the optimum working temperature of 230 ℃. When the sensor is exposed 50 ppm ethanol, the value of response is 47 and the response/recovery times are 11 s and 12 s, respectively.
A homogeneous porous Co3O4-ZnO nanomaterial (Zn-CoOx) was successfully fabricated by precipitationannealing route. The as-prepared Zn-CoOx exhibited good response, reliable reversibility and good selectivity towards alcohols, which attributed to the porous structure and p-n heterojunction formed between Co3O4 and ZnO. In particular, the different Fermi levels of Co3O4 and ZnO leaded to a further increase the depth of the space charge layer, which improved the gas sensitivity of the material from 10% to 480%. Besides, the continuous Co3O4 leaded to a relatively lower operating temperature and resistance. This material preparation method and bimetallic oxides could be widely used in the research and development of metal oxide gas sensitive materials and sensors.
Ordered mesoporous carbon (OMCs) FDU-15 was synthesized through an EISA (Evaporation-Induced Self-Assembly) method, and the oxidized OMCs (FDU-15-COOH) were obtained by subsequent oxidation treatments in liquid phase to introduce functional groups. The samples were characterized by XRD, TEM, FT-IR and nitrogen adsorption-desorption test. The low humidity sensing performances of FDU-15 and FDU-15-COOH thin films were investigated by using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) transducer. The responses of FDU-15-COOH is higher than that of the pristine FDU-15 at very low humidity (< 729 ppmv) with high long-term stability, implying that FDU-15-COOH is a good candidate for low humidity QCM sensor.
In the work, rGO nanosheet is synthesized using the typical Hummer's method, then Cu12Sb4S13 quantum dots@rGO composites are prepared by solvent thermal method, and Cu12Sb4S13 quantum dots with the average size of 5 nm are densely distributed on the surface of rGO sheet. NH3 gas response of Cu12Sb4S13 quantum dots@rGO nanosheet composites at room temperature of 25 ℃ is enhanced compared with the pure Cu12Sb4S13 quantum dots and rGO nanosheet, and the composites possess an excellent stability during the humidity range of 45%-80% with a low detection limit of 1 ppm, which is related with the intrinsic hydrophobicity characteristic of Cu12Sb4S13 quantum dots. It also proves that Cu12Sb4S13 quantum dots@rGO nanosheet composites have a quite high selectivity towards ammonia compared with ethanol, methanol, acetone, toluene, hydrogen sulfide and nitrogen dioxide at room temperature. The gas sensing mechanism of the composites is discussed primarily.
In this work, the two-dimensional MoS2 film was prepared by sulfuring the molybdenum atomic layer on SiO2/Si substrate. The reaction temperature, heating rate, holding time and carrier gas flow rate were investigated comprehensively. The quality of MoS2 film was characterized by optical microscopy, atomic force microscopy, Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy. The characterization results showed that the optimum synthesis parameters were heating rate of 25 ℃/min, reaction temperature of 750 ℃, holding time of 30 min and carrier gas velocity of 100 sccm. The MoS2 gas sensor was fabricated and its gas sensing performance was tested. The test results indicated that the sensor had a good response to both reducing gas (NH3) and oxidizing gas (NO2) at room temperature. The sensitivity to 100 ppm of NO2 was 31.3%, and the response/recovery times were 4 s and 5 s, respectively. In addition, the limit of detection could be as low as 1 ppm. This work helps us to develop low power and integrable room temperature NO2 sensors.
V2O5 flower-like structures assembled by thin nanosheets were in-situ growth on ceramic tubes by hydrothermal process. The structural characterization indicates that V2O5 flower-like structures is orthogonal diamond phase, which entirely covered on the surface of ceramic tubes. TMA sensing measured results revealed that the sensor based on V2O5 flower-like structures exhibited fast reversible and response, good selectivity to TMA and good stability at 200 ℃. The good sensing performance may be ascribed to flower-like structures and directly growth sensing film on the ceramic tube without structure damage. Our works give a simple in-situ growth flower-like structures route on sensing device, which exhibits potential application for detecting trace amounts of TMA gas.
This paper reports a high-performance H2S gas sensing material that is made of ZnO nanowires (NWs) modified by an optimal amount of ZnS to form nano-heterojunctions. Compared with the intrinsic ZnONWs, the three differently modified nano-heterostructure material ZnO-ZnS-x (x=5, 10, 15) shows significant improvement in sensing performance to H2S at the working temperatures of 100 400 ℃, especially in the low temperature range (< 300 ℃). The chemiresistive sensor with ZnO-ZnS-10 sensingmaterial exhibits the largest response signal to H2S among all the other ZnO-ZnS-x (x=5, 10, 15, 20) sensors. Its response signal to 5 ppm H2S at 150 ℃ is about 2.7 times to that of the ZnO-NWs sensor. Besides, the ZnO-ZnS-10 sensor also features satisfactory selectivity and repeatability at 150 ℃. With the technical advantage attributed to the reduction of the redesigned band gap at the interface between ZnO and ZnS, the ZnO-ZnS heterostructure sensor rather than the traditional ZnO-NWs sensor can be used for high-sensitivity application at low working temperature.
This work reports a superhydrophobic divinylbenzene polymer with hierarchical porous structure as sensing material to modify the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) to detect benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) vapor. Notably, sensing results toward toluene vapor in different relative humidities indicates that this superhydrophobic polymer has favorable toluene/water selective detection performance. Besides, the limit of detection toward toluene is lower than 1 ppm.
Noble metal is usually used to improve the gas sensing performance of metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) due to its better catalytic properties. In this work, we reported a synthesis of Pd/ZnO nanocomposite by an in situ reduction with ascorbic acid (AA). It was found that Pd/ZnO sensor has excellent selectivity to CO and the response of the Pd/ZnO sensor towards 100 ppm CO was as high as 15 (Ra/Rg), obviously higher than that of the pristine ZnO sensor (1.4) when the working temperature is 220 ℃. Moreover, the pure ZnO sensor almost has no selectivity to CO, but the Pd/ZnO sensor has excellent selectivity to CO, which may be ascribed to the electronic sensitization of Pd. Our present results demonstrate that the Pd can significantly improve the gas-sensing performance of metal oxide semiconductor and the obtained sensor has great potential in monitoring coal mine gas.
About 90% cancer-related mortality results from the cancer metastasis, which generally undergoes after epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) process. N-Cadherin, overexpressed on cancer cell surface during EMT, can enhance the migration of cancer cells. Herein, we design and synthesize a transformable peptide BP-KLVFF-SWTLYTPSGQSK (BFS) that can block N-cadherin for inhibiting cancer migration and metastasis. The peptide BFS consists of three modules including (1) the hydrophobic bis-pyrene (BP) unit for forming and locating nanoparticles, (2) the KLVFF peptide sequence for forming and stabilizing fibrous structures and (3) the targeting peptide sequence SWTLYTPSGQSK that can specifically bind to Ncadherin. The peptide BFS can form nanoparticles in PBS, which can transform to nanofibers when targeting and binding to N-cadherin. The nanofibers inhibit the migration of N-cadherin overexpressed MDA-MB-436 cancer cells. The peptide BFS shows 83.6% inhibiting rate in cells wound healing assay. In addition, the inhibition rate is 67.9% when the BFS applied in transwell migration assay. These results indicate that the BFS has excellent ability to inhibit migration of cancer cells. This self-assembly strategy could be potentially utilized to regulate the key protein during EMT for inhibiting the tumor metastasis.
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