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Jiacheng Cao1, Qian Chen1, Xiaoshan Wang1, Qiang Zhang1, Hai-Dong Yu1, 2, Xiao Huang1, 2, Wei Huang1, 2
Research. Vol 2021 Article ID 9863038
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Research. Vol 2021 Article ID 9863038
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Recent Development of Gas Sensing Platforms Based on 2D Atomic Crystals
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Jiacheng Cao1, Qian Chen1, Xiaoshan Wang1, Qiang Zhang1, Hai-Dong Yu1, 2, Xiao Huang1, 2, Wei Huang1, 2
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  • 1Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Xi’an Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), and Xi’an Institute of Biomedical Materials & Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi’an 710072, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211800, China
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Jiacheng Cao, Qian Chen, and Xiaoshan Wang contributed equally to this work.

Published: 2021-04-20 doi: 10.34133/2021/9863038
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Sensors, capable of detecting trace amounts of gas molecules or volatile organic compounds (VOCs), are in great demand for environmental monitoring, food safety, health diagnostics, and national defense. In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data, the requirements on gas sensors, in addition to sensitivity and selectivity, have been increasingly placed on sensor simplicity, room temperature operation, ease for integration, and flexibility. The key to meet these requirements is the development of high-performance gas sensing materials. Two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals, emerged after graphene, have demonstrated a number of attractive properties that are beneficial to gas sensing, such as the versatile and tunable electronic/optoelectronic properties of metal chalcogenides (MCs), the rich surface chemistry and good conductivity of MXenes, and the anisotropic structural and electronic properties of black phosphorus (BP). While most gas sensors based on 2D atomic crystals have been incorporated in the setup of a chemiresistor, field-effect transistor (FET), quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), or optical fiber, their working principles that involve gas adsorption, charge transfer, surface reaction, mass loading, and/or change of the refractive index vary from material to material. Understanding the gas-solid interaction and the subsequent signal transduction pathways is essential not only for improving the performance of existing sensing materials but also for searching new and advanced ones. In this review, we aim to provide an overview of the recent development of gas sensors based on various 2D atomic crystals from both the experimental and theoretical investigations. We will particularly focus on the sensing mechanisms and working principles of the related sensors, as well as approaches to enhance their sensing performances. Finally, we summarize the whole article and provide future perspectives for the development of gas sensors with 2D materials.

Jiacheng Cao, Qian Chen, Xiaoshan Wang, Qiang Zhang, Hai-Dong Yu, Xiao Huang, Wei Huang. Recent Development of Gas Sensing Platforms Based on 2D Atomic Crystals[J]. Research, 2021 , 2021 (4) : 9863038 - . DOI: 10.34133/2021/9863038
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1. Introduction
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Acting as an indispensable component in the era of the Internet of Things, gas sensors have been intensively studied and applied in a broad range of fields including gas emission control, agricultural and industrial production, military defense, environmental safety, and medical diagnostics [1–3]. High sensitivity, good selectivity, and rapid response/recovery time, as well as ambient working conditions, are the main requirements for high-performance gas sensors.
The gold standard for gas analysis has been spectroscopy-based techniques, typically including gas chromatography (GC), infrared (IR) absorption spectroscopy, and Raman scattering spectroscopy. GC is able to perform multicomponent analysis by separating different gas components in the chromatographic column according to their distribution coefficients between the mobile phase (i.e., the carrier gas) and the stationary phase (e.g., a solid adsorbent or liquid support) [4]. Separated gas components will successively enter a detector that converts the component signals to electric signals by various means, such as the thermal conductivity detector [5] and flame ionization detector [6]. Owing to the limited detection capability of these detectors, mass spectrometry and optical spectroscopies have been coupled with GC to obtain better qualitative and quantitative information [7–10]. The IR absorption spectroscopy is based on the selective adsorption of laser radiation of gas molecules, mostly in the middle-infrared wavelength, which can induce the change of the dipole moment of gas molecules, reflected in the position and intensity of their adsorption spectra; different gas molecules usually have their own characteristic spectral lines like “fingerprints” showing both the qualitative and quantitative information. However, the IR spectroscopy still has some limitations, such as a restricted selectivity, especially being inactive to diatomic homonuclear molecules such as nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen [11]. The Raman scattering spectroscopy, which involves the inelastic scattering of photons upon interaction with gas molecules, is capable of providing fingerprints for a wide range of gas molecules including those inactive to IR adsorption spectroscopy [12]. However, due to the relatively weak signal of the Raman scattering spectroscopy, higher power laser sources or cavity-enhanced Raman spectroscopy techniques are needed for precise detection [13].
The abovementioned spectroscopic sensing techniques, despite their robustness, usually require expensive and bulky instruments and thus are not easily accessible and not suitable for applications that require on-site investigation and in situ monitoring. Alternative gas sensing techniques are therefore being developed in parallel for reduced cost and better portability. These gas sensors include electrical sensors, such as electrochemical sensors [14], chemiresistors [15], field-effect transistors (FETs) [16], Schottky diodes [17], conductometric (or chemiresistive) sensors [18], and impedance sensors [19], and optical sensors, such as fiber optic gas sensors [20] and photonic crystal gas sensors [21]. Although conventional gas sensing materials such as metal oxides, conducting polymers, and carbon nanotubes have long been developed and applied in commercial gas sensors, they still suffer from problems such as limited selectivity, poor reproducibility, and, in most cases, high operating temperatures [22–24]. Therefore, the exploration and development of alternative gas sensing materials require continuous efforts.
Two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals, such as metal chalcogenides (MCs), black phosphorus (BP), and MXenes, are considered attractive candidates for the fabrication of gas sensors due to their ultrahigh specific surface areas with massive reactive sites for interaction with gas molecules, thickness-dependent physical and chemical properties, tunable surface functionalities, solution phase production for scalable device fabrication, and ability to assemble into three-dimensional (3D) architectures with controllable porosities [25–29]. 2D materials have been mostly explored in the form of a chemiresistive gas sensor (Figure 1(a)), field-effect transistor (FET) (Figure 1(b)), quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) (Figure 1(c)), fiber optic gas sensor (Figure 1(d)), and photonic crystal gas sensor (Figure 1(e)). Their basic working principles are described as follows.
Chemiresistive gas sensors have a relatively simple configuration. Typically, sensing materials, such as 2D materials, are cast as a film to connect two predeposited electrodes or on top of an interdigitated electrode (Figure 1(a)). The adsorption of target gas molecules can lead to resistance change of the sensing film, mostly through the exchange of charge carriers. The resistance change, i.e., S%=Rg−R0/R0×100%, where R0 is the film resistance in the air or inert gas, and Rg is the film resistance when exposed to the target gas at equilibrium, reflects the sensitivity of the sensor.
Resembling the chemiresistive gas sensors, FET gas sensors also respond to gas adsorption via resistance change (or conductance change) of the sensing channel, which connects the source and drain electrodes (Figure 1(b)). Its advantage is that the sensing response can be tuned by adjusting the gate bias which controls the carrier concentration in the channel and thus tunes the amount of charge carriers in exchange with the absorbed gas molecules. More details will be given in Section 2.1.1.
A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), typically consisting of a quartz crystal sandwiched between two parallel metal electrodes, is capable of providing extremely sensitive mass measurement in the scale of nano- to microgram per unit area (cm2). A QCM makes use of the piezoelectric property of the quartz crystal, which oscillates under an applied voltage across the two electrodes. Its resonant frequency decreases upon mass loading. The relationship between the frequency shift (Δf) and the mass load (Δm) is described by the Sauerbrey equation, Δf=−2.26×10−6f02Δm/A, where f0 is the intrinsic resonant frequency of the piezoelectric crystal and A is the surface area of the circular electrode [30]. For gas sensing, the mass loading (or stress) induced by the gas adsorption on the electrode surface is transferred to the quartz crystal below to induce its frequency change (Figure 1(c)). Depositing 2D materials onto the surface of the electrode can help increase the amount of gas adsorption sites and improve the selectivity of the QCM gas sensor [31–33].
One of the most common optical gas sensors is the fiber optic type as shown in Figure 1(d). Its main component is a waveguide consisting of a fiber core and the surrounding cladding. The core has a higher refractive index than the cladding, allowing the light to travel along with the fiber core via total reflection; a small portion of the light is transmitted as evanescent waves perpendicular to the fiber axis with intensity reduced exponentially in the cladding [20]. The adsorption of gas molecules on the cladding changes its refractive index, resulting in the change of the output light signals such as its intensity and wavelength. However, gas adsorption-induced change in the material refractive index is limited in selectivity, and therefore, the cladding is usually functionalized with molecules or nanomaterials, such as 2D materials, which have a specific affinity toward the target gas.
Another similar type of optical gas sensor is the photonic crystal (PC) gas sensor Figure 1(e), where the abovementioned optic fiber is replaced with PCs, which are, mostly, artificial optical materials with periodic changes in the refractive index [34]. When the fiber cladding has a higher refractive index than the PC core with air channels, according to the photonic bandgap theory, light with frequency in the range of the PC bandgap will be bound in and transmit along the air channel with low energy loss [21]. The air channels also serve as cells for the introduction of target gas molecules, which change the refractive index of the PC core and thus change the output light. Functionalization of the PCs with 2D materials is able to enhance the selectivity of the optical gas sensor, which will be discussed in Section 2.1.4.
The gas adsorption on a 2D material can lead to changes in a number of its properties such as its carrier concentration, carrier mobility, work function, band positions (or redox potentials), and oxidation states, as well as the refractive index. A deep understanding of the processes behind the output changes is of paramount importance in designing and developing novel and advanced sensing materials and devices. This contribution is thus aimed at providing a comprehensive review on the recent development of gas sensors based on 2D materials, discussing their sensing mechanisms, influencing factors, and approaches to enhance the gas sensing performance. As gas sensors based on graphene and related materials have been reviewed previously [35–38], this review will mainly cover gas sensors based on other 2D atomic crystals, such as MCs, MXenes, and BP, as well as their composites/heterostructures.
2. Metal Chalcogenides (MCs)
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Metal chalcogenides (MCs) in general have a chemical formula of MX2 or MX where M is a transition metal such as Nb, Ta, Mo, and W or a posttransition metal such as Sn and In, and X is a chalcogen species such as S, Se, and Te (Figure 2(a)) [39]. They exist in various crystal phases that correlate to their electronic properties (Figure 2(b)) [40]. Most of them are layered structures, and adjacent MX2 or MX layers are stacked together via the weak van der Waals forces. Therefore, single- or few-layer MCs can be prepared by top-down methods, such as mechanical cleavage, ultrasonication-assisted liquid-phase exfoliation, and chemical or electrochemical intercalation and subsequent exfoliation [41, 42]. In addition, bottom-up methods, mainly including vapor-based methods such as the physical and chemical vapor deposition (PVD, CVD) and wet chemical methods such as the solvothermal/hydrothermal method, have also been employed to synthesize 2D MCs [43–46]. Due to their attractive chemical, electrochemical, and optoelectronic properties [47–49], MCs are considered promising materials for various applications such as electronic devices [50], catalysis [51], photothermal therapy [52], and energy storage devices [53].
Unlike pristine graphene, which is a gapless semimetal and suffers from poor selectivity when it comes to molecular detection, the tunable band structures of 2D MCs make them attractive candidates for the fabrication of electrical gas sensors [38, 47, 54]. Up till now, not all the MCs have been explored for gas sensing, and the most studied MCs for gas sensing are MoS2, WS2, MoSe2, WSe2, ReS2, ReSe2, SnS2, GaS, and GaSe. Whether a MC material is suitable for gas sensing is dependent on a number of factors, such as its bandgap, doping type and level, and surface chemistry. For example, metallic NbS2 and VSe2 may not be suitable for sensing because of their low electrical resistance and vice versa for the insulating HfS2. Other factors that should also be taken into consideration when designing MC-based gas sensing materials, such as the alloying, layer number, and presence of heterojunctions, will be introduced in detail in Sections 2.1 and 2.2. For example, MCs such as MoS2 [55] and WS2 [56] have been used to detect NO2, and MoSe2 [57] has been used to sense NH3 and ethanol (Table 1). Most MC-based electrical gas sensors are based on the charge transfer mechanism [1, 38, 56, 58–64], while sensing via surface reaction and proton conduction has also been proposed [65–68]. Besides, sensing via gas adsorption-induced change of the refractive index has been explored in MC-functionalized optical sensors [20, 21].
2.1. Basic Working Principles
2.1.1. Sensing via Charge Transfer
Gas sensing via charge transfer can be interpreted as electron (or hole) transport between a sensing film and the target gas. Depending on whether the gas is oxidizing (e.g., NO2 and SO2) or reducing (e.g., NH3 and acetone) and the sensing film is an n- or p-type semiconductor, electrons are withdrawn from or donated to the sensing film. For example, mechanical exfoliated n-type MoS2 nanosheets showed an increased resistance upon NO2 adsorption and decreased resistance under NH3 exposure [55], and hydrothermally synthesized p-type WS2 nanosheets presented a reduced resistance toward NO2 and an opposite response toward NH3 [70]. The dopant type of MCs is dependent on their compositions (or alloying), crystal structures, and their preparation methods as shown in Table 1.
The selectivity of this type of sensor largely depends on the ability of the sensing material to bind with the target gas and the tendency to receive or donate electrons toward the gas. For example, experimental studies have shown good selectivity of MoS2 sensors toward NO2 gas [71], which agrees with theoretical calculation results that the adsorption energies of NO2/NO gases on MoS2 are generally lower and the amount of electrons transferred is higher as compared to that toward other gases including CO, CO2, NH3, NO, NO2, CH4, H2O, N2, O2, and SO2 (Figure 3) [72].
In addition to the intrinsic properties of gas adsorption, there are other factors that can influence the sensing response of MC-based gas sensors via charge transfer, which will be discussed in the following context.
(1) Electrode Channel Contact. When a metal and a semiconductor are in contact with each other, either a Schottky barrier or an Ohmic contact is formed depending on the semiconductor type and the relative position of their work functions [73]. Specifically, taking an n-type semiconductor as an example, when its work function Ws is smaller than that of the electrode (Wm), i.e., Wm>Ws, the two Fermi levels tend to reach the same level once they are in close contact, and the band of the semiconductor near the interface tends to bend upward, resulting in the formation of a potential barrier called the Schottky barrier (Figure 4(a)). Only electrons with energies higher than the potential barrier can travel across the interface [74], and thus, the current is mainly controlled by the barrier height and width of the depletion layer [75]. When Wm<Ws, the band of the semiconductor tends to bend downward at the interface where an electron accumulation region could form (Figure 4(b)), leading to an Ohmic contact.
The Schottky barrier present at a semiconductor-metal interface is an important tunable factor influencing its gas sensing performance [76–78]. According to previous studies [79], the I-V curve of a semiconductor-electrode contact has a basic correlation with the Schottky barrier height:
(1)I=I0 expqVnkT⋅1−exp−qVnkT,(2)I0=SAT2exp −ØbkT.
Here, q is the electron charge, n is the ideality factor, k is the Boltzman constant, T is the absolute temperature, S is the contact area, A is the Richardson constant, and Øb is the Schottky barrier height. The above two equations indicate that the current varies exponentially with the Schottky barrier height. Therefore, the charge transfer upon gas adsorption, which can change the Fermi level of the semiconductor and in turn vary the Schottky barrier height [80], can lead to a large current response of the sensor. As an example, Kim et al. [81] fabricated p-type MoS2-based gas sensors with three kinds of metal electrodes, i.e., Au, Ag, and Al. The sensors with the Al electrode exhibited the best sensing response toward NO2 (Figures 5(a) and 5(b)). This was attributed to the lower work function of Al (4.06 eV) as compared with Au (5.1 eV) and Ag (4.26 eV), thus the higher Schottky barrier height when in contact with MoS2 (Figures 5(c) and 5(e)). After the NO2 adsorption, the amplitude of the change of the Schottky barrier height in the Al-MoS2-based gas sensor was higher than the others (Figures 5(d) and 5(f)), leading to the highest sensing response.
As for the Ohmic contact, although it is characterized by a linear I-V curve with a relatively low contact resistance as compared to the Schottky contact [82], the change of its resistance, on the contrary, is less affected by gas adsorption.
(2) Layer Number. The electronic properties of 2D materials, such as band levels and carrier mobilities, are very much dependent on their thickness or layer number [29, 55, 83, 84]. This, as expected, can lead to the layer number-dependent gas sensing behavior.
It is generally accepted that thinner nanosheets can provide a larger surface-to-volume ratio for gas adsorption, and the enlarged bandgap and varied band positions may help tune the energy barriers for charge transfer with gas molecules. However, ultrathin 2D materials are prone to environmental perturbations. For example, single- or few-layer MoS2 showed lower mobilities than multilayer or bulk MoS2, which is likely caused by the Coulomb potential built up by charges trapped in the substrate (e.g., Si/SiO2) [85, 86]. In addition, a reduced carrier concentration in thinner nanosheets may also pose an adverse effect on its sensing response [29, 85, 87]. For example, Li and coworkers found that a single-layer MoS2 FET sensor showed an unstable and lower response toward NO as compared to double- to four-layer MoS2 [88]. Similarly, Late et al. [55] observed poor sensing performance in a double-layer MoS2-based FET gas sensor as compared to a five-layer MoS2 FET.
Increasing the layer number of 2D materials may provide a reduced gas binding energy at interlayer adsorption sites, bringing benefit to gas sensing. Through first-principle calculations, Qin et al. [61] suggested that the interlayer adsorption sites for NH3 in few-layer or bulk WS2 have higher binding energy (-0.356 eV) than the surface adsorption sites on a monolayer WS2 (-0.179 eV), and the corresponding net charge transferred is 0.038 and 0.006 e, respectively. Besides, the recovery time and sensing response of the thicker nanosheets were found to be both larger than the thinner ones. It is however worth noting that too high a binding energy, such as that involved in chemisorption, may not be desirable for gas sensing due to the difficulty in gas desorption.
On the basis of the above discussion, it can be inferred that although tuning MC thicknesses can change a number of their properties such as charge carrier mobility, carrier density, band levels, and specific affinity toward gas adsorption, the dominating factor or factors that control the gas sensing performance require systematic investigations and consideration case by case.
(3) Working Temperature. Temperature is an important parameter affecting gas sensing performance, especially for electrical sensors [89]. Raising the temperature can increase the carrier concentration of a semiconducting sensing material, promote surface reactions, and result in a higher response; besides, higher temperatures can also enhance the kinetics of the gas adsorption and desorption process, simultaneously influencing the profile of the response curve [22, 90]. An early investigation of the temperature effect by Zhang et al. [57] suggests that increasing the temperature would lower the energy barrier for ethanol adsorption on MoSe2, resulting in the enhanced charge transfer and higher response (Figures 6(a) and 6(b)).
However, when a sensor operates in the air, interference from water and other gases would complicate the temperature effect. Conventional metal oxide-based gas sensors require elevated working temperatures (typically >150°C), because target gas molecules interact strongly with preadsorbed high-temperature oxygen species, and the conductance of a metal oxide improves at higher temperatures [91]. A similar principle can be applied to MC-based sensors. Kumar et al. [62] reported that a NO2 sensor based on a MoS2 nanowire network showed a higher response at 60°C than at room temperature. Apart from the conductivity improvement, raising the temperature to 60°C could induce desorption of oxygen and water molecules originally capped on the MoS2 surface, thus providing more room for NO2-MoS2 interaction. As a result, a good selectivity at 60°C was also achieved with this sensor (Figure 6(c)). At further elevated temperatures, for example, 120°C, a sharp decrease of the sensing response was observed, probably because the desorption of NO2 surpassed its adsorption as the interaction between NO2 and MoS2 is an exothermic process. Similarly, Shim et al. also observed a reduced sensing performance of a MoS2-based NO2 sensor when the temperature was increased from 50 to 200°C (Figure 6(d)) [60]. They suggested that high-temperature oxygen species, i.e., O2−, O−, and O2−, might emerge at elevated temperatures (e.g., 150°C) and occupy the surface active sites of MoS2 (Figures 6(e) and 6(f)). From the above two examples, it can be seen that at room temperature to slightly elevated temperatures (e.g., 60°C), a target gas like NO2 will compete with O2 and H2O in the air to be absorbed on the sensing material; at further elevated temperatures, most O2 and H2O molecules will desorb from the sensor surface and instead oxygen anions will form and compete with NO2 for adsorption sites.
It is worth noting that, for the detection of electron-accepting gases such as NO2 or NO, common interference gases like O2 and H2O in the air may affect the selectivity of the sensor due to their competition with the target gas for absorption sites on the sensor surface. Therefore, a careful choice of the working temperature may help eliminate the influence from O2 and H2O and achieve better selectivity. On the other hand, for the detection of electron-donating gases like NH3 or acetone, the O2−, O−, and O2− species present at elevated temperatures are beneficial for the improvement of the sensor selectivity and sensitivity owing to the interaction between these oxygen species and the electron-donating gases.
(4) Application of the Gate Bias for FET Sensors. Most FET gas sensors adopt the bottom-gated configuration, where the semiconducting channel is directly exposed to the target gas. Taking the n-type channel as an example, applying a negative gate bias (VG<VT<0, where VG is the gate voltage and VT is the threshold voltage) can increase the hole concentration and form the minority carrier channel between the drain and the source electrode (Figures 7(a) and 7(b)) [89, 92, 93]. In the case of VG>0 (Figures 7(c) and 7(d)), the bias can induce an electron accumulation region. The bias-induced formation of either a charge depletion or an accumulation region can assist in modifying the gas sensing behavior of the device. An example to illustrate this approach would be the n-type MoS2 nanosheet-based FET sensor fabricated by Late et al. [55]. When a positive gate bias is applied to the sensor, additional electrons are accumulated at the contact interface between the MoS2 and the dielectric gate material. Upon exposure to oxidizing gases like NO2, electrons from the accumulation region interact with and are transferred to NO2, leading to the enhanced sensing performance; oppositely, when the sensor is exposed to reducing gases like NH3, the accumulated electrons would repel electrons from NH3 molecules and thus in turn decrease the sensing response.
2.1.2. Sensing Involving Surface Reactions
Gas sensing with conventional metal oxide-based gas sensors usually involves surface reactions between preabsorbed oxygen species (O2−, O−, and O2−) and target gas molecules at elevated temperatures [22, 94–98]. Likewise, chemical reactions on MC surfaces can also take place at elevated temperatures, leading to improved sensing performance. For example, Asres et al. reported that a WS2-based gas sensor exhibited excellent sensitivity (0.043 ppm–1) and high selectivity (Figure 8(a)) toward H2S at 200°C [68]. They suggested that under ambient conditions, the O2 in the air can substitute some of the S atoms in WS2 to form WS2-xOx. When exposed to H2S at elevated temperatures, part of the O atoms in WS2-xOx could be replaced by S from H2S to yield WS2-yOy until a new equilibrium is reached.
In another interesting work, Li et al. demonstrated that the sensing performance of WS2 nanoflakes toward NH3 could be improved at higher humidity due to the proposed hydroxylation reaction as shown below [67]:
(3)SO42− WS2 surface+H2O⟷H++SO42−+OH−
The increased surface acidity in humid conditions could help attract more basic NH3 molecules to donate electrons. Besides, higher humidity may enable more NH3 molecules bound to the WS2 surface via the “solvation” effect according to the equation below:
(4)NH3+H2O⟷NH4++OH−
The resulting NH4+ ions would further react with the adsorbed oxygen ions to donate electrons to WS2:
(5)NH4++O2−⟶NO+H2O+e−
Because of the reaction-assisted sensing pathway, this sensor exhibits an unrivaled selectivity toward NH3 against other electron-donating gases such as acetone and ethanol (Figure 8(b)).
It can be inferred from the above examples that surface reactions with target gases on MC-based sensing materials mainly involve water vapor- and oxygen-related species (i.e., O2, O2−, O−, and O2−) in the air. Although these reactions may enhance the sensing response and selectivity, they may also bring problems of long response time, slow desorption, and poor reusability.
2.1.3. Sensing via Proton Conduction
One of the most accepted proton conduction mechanisms, the Grotthuss mechanism or the hopping mechanism, was proposed in 1806 by Theodor von Grotthuss and named after him [99]. This process exists in all liquid water, in which protons are tunneled from one water molecule to an adjacent one through hydrogen bonding (Figure 9(a)) [66]. The proton conduction based on the Grotthuss mechanism therefore has also been proposed as a plausible mechanism to explain many humidity sensing phenomena in addition to electron/hole transfer [66, 100, 101]. For example, MoS2 nanosheets were used for humidity sensing by Burman et al. [65]. They suggested that at relatively low humidity, water molecules chemisorbed on MoS2 surfaces are dissociated into hydroxyl ions (OH-) and protons (H+), and the OH- ions were preferably adsorbed at the S-vacancy sites (Equation (6)) [102]. Because the formed water layer is not continuous at this stage to support the effective proton conduction, the main sensing mechanism is still based on charge transfer from water to n-type MoS2. As the relative humidity increases, more water molecules are physisorbed on top of the chemisorbed water layer to form a second layer and dissociated into hydronium groups (H3O+) and hydroxyl ions (OH-) (Equation (7)). Then, proton conduction via hopping can take place in both water layers, leading to a sudden rise of the sensing response (Figure 9(b)).
(6)H2O⟷H++OH− for lower humidity levels(7)2H2O⟷H3O++OH− for higher humidity levels
Since MCs are generally sensitive to humidity to various extent, humidity becomes an unneglectable influencing factor when MCs are used for gas sensing in the air. As reported by Xu et al. [70], their WS2-based impedance NO2 sensor showed a reduced baseline with increasing humidity. This is because H2O molecules adsorbed on WS2 would be dissociated into H+ or H3O+ ions, which, under an electrostatic field, could transport via the hopping mechanism (Figure 9(c)). The baseline change led to a reduction in the sensing response (Figure 9(d)). This negative effect of humidity can be reduced via approaches such as noble metal decoration, coating with a hydrophobic film, and construction of p-n junctions [22, 103, 104].
2.1.4. Sensing via Change of the Refractive Index
As mentioned in the introduction (Figures 1(d) and 1(e)), fiber-based optical gas sensors, which are based on gas adsorption-induced change of the refractive index, have been combined with 2D materials for improved selectivity. For example, Sangeetha and Madhan [105] substituted a portion of the cladding with the graphene-MoS2 nanoparticle composite, whose refractive index changed upon gas adsorption, leading to a change in the evanescent field, further influencing the light intensity transmitted through the waveguide. This sensor achieved good sensitivity (61%), rapid response (22 s), short recovery time (35 s), and appreciable selectivity, as well as good stability toward 500 ppm NO2. It is important to note that although the sensitivity of this type of sensor is not comparable with electrical sensors which can detect sub-ppm level NO2, they are suitable for sensing at long distances, especially in situations involving dangerous environments [106].
Compared to the measurement of light intensity, monitoring the shift of the light wavelength may provide better selectivity and precision. Taking the advantage of PC-based optical sensors, Zhao et al. [107] incorporated MoS2 with the SiO2-based PC cavity slab in a fiber optic sensor for methanol detection. The refractive index of MoS2 varies when methanol molecules are adsorbed on its surface, which shifts the resonance wavelength of the PC. Different from electrical sensors whose selectivity mainly comes from the ability of gases to donate or withdraw electrons, the selectivity of this type of optical sensor mainly depends on the polarity of the gases in addition to the strength of the interaction between the gas and the MoS2. Although the sensor responds not only to methanol but also to acetone and ether, it shows the highest response to methanol, which is important since selective methanol detection has been difficult to be realized with electrical sensors. More importantly, this sensor showed an ultrafast response (300 ms) and could enable the real-time monitoring of the light spectrum when coupled with IR adsorption spectroscopy or Raman scattering spectroscopy [108, 109].
2.2. Approaches to Improve Sensing Performance
To date, various approaches have been explored to enhance the performance of gas sensors based on 2D materials, such as ligand functionalization, creation of 3D porous structures, light activation, and formation of 2D heterostructures (Figure 10), which are introduced in the following context.
2.2.1. Ligand Functionalization
The functionalization of MCs with organic molecules can modulate their surface chemistry, surface charge states, and electronic structures [45, 110, 111], which in turn modifies their gas sensing behaviors. For example, Kim et al. [112] functionalized the MoS2 surface with mercaptoundecanoic acid (MUA) and compared its gas sensing performance with that of primitive MoS2. The primitive MoS2 showed an increased resistance toward five different gases, including toluene, hexane, ethanol, propionaldehyde, and acetone, regardless of their redox nature (Figure 11(a)). Therefore, the gas dipole-induced charge scattering was proposed to be the dominant mechanism behind the conductance reduction (Figure 11(b)). In sharp contrast, the MUA-conjugated MoS2 showed decreased resistance upon exposure to oxygen-functionalized gases including ethanol, propionaldehyde, and acetone. This is because the carboxyl groups of MUA molecules could interact with the oxygen-containing functional groups in these gas molecules via the formation of hydrogen bonds to promote the electron transfer toward MoS2 through the saturated alkyl chains of MUA (Figure 11(c)). It is interesting to note that by surface modification, the sign of the sensing response to a specific gas can be inverted, providing another means for selectivity enhancement.
2.2.2. Creation of Porous 3D Assemblies of MCs
The construction of porous 3D assemblies of MCs is able to maximize their exposed surfaces for gas-solid interactions and enables fast gas diffusion and recovery kinetics [62, 113–115]. This was recently demonstrated by Li et al. [116], who showed that hierarchical hollow MoS2 microspheres exhibited a higher specific surface area and improved gas permeability, thus leading to an enhanced gas sensing performance toward NO2 as compared to solid spheres or smooth spheres (Figures 12(a) and 12(b)). It is noteworthy that the selectivity of the sensor is also good (Figure 12(c)), which was attributed to not only the specific interaction between NO2 and MoS2 but also the size-selective penetration of different gases through the pores of the hierarchical hollow MoS2 microspheres. In another interesting work by Asres et al. [68], 1D nanowires and 2D nanosheets of WS2 were combined together for H2S sensing. While the nanowires provided a continuous conductive network with percolated channels for gas diffusion, the thin 2D nanosheets provided large surface areas to adsorb gas molecules on both basal faces and edges.
2.2.3. Light Activation
Light illumination on semiconductors can enhance their sensing performance by inducing photogenerated charge carriers [117]. For example, Pham et al. [64] reported that an n-type MoS2-based optoelectronic NO2 sensor exhibited an improved sensing response under the red light illumination as compared to the dark. It was suggested that the oxygen ions originally absorbed on the surface of MoS2 could trap electrons to prevent them from interacting with NO2 (Figure 13(a)). The additional electrons generated by red light activation were not bound to the oxygen ions, and some of them were free to be transferred to NO2 molecules to raise the sensing response (Figure 13(b)).
Different excitation energies can have different effects on the sensing response. In a very systematic study, Gu et al. [117] found that both ultraviolet (UV) light (365 nm) and near-infrared (NIR) light (940 nm) can help improve the performance of an WS2-based NH3 sensor at 40°C (Figure 13(c)), but are based on different mechanisms. Under 940 nm light illumination, which is about the bandgap of WS2, the photogenerated electrons could interact with O2 to yield O2−(hv) ions absorbed on WS2. These O2−(hv) ions, as compared to the preabsorbed oxygen ions (O2−(ads)) under dark conditions, are more energetic to interact with the target NH3 gas molecules [117–122], thus resulting in the enhanced sensing performance. Under 365 nm illumination, on the other hand, the light energy was able to excite not only WS2 but also electrons localized in the highest occupied molecule orbit (HOMO) of NH3 from their ground state [117, 123–125]; these excited electrons in NH3 were more likely to be transferred to WS2, resulting in a larger resistance change (Figure 13(d)). Furthermore, because of this light activation of NH3 molecules, the sensor showed the best selectivity under 365 nm light excitation as compared to under 940 nm light or without light (Figure 13(e)).
A new sensing mechanism was recently reported by Tabata et al. [126]. They found that the common charge transfer mechanism cannot explain the sensing phenomenon they observed with a MoS2 monolayer-based NO2 sensor under light activation. As shown in Figures 13(f)–13(i), the response values are almost independent of the light irradiance (or power). If charge transfer is the main mechanism, at varied radiances, the amount of charge transferred at the same gas concentration should be the same, whereas the film current should vary with irradiance due to the different amounts of photoinduced charge carriers. Therefore, the sensor response should also vary with radiance, which contradicts the experimental observation. The authors thus proposed that the adsorbed NO2 molecules do not change the density of photoexcited carriers in MoS2; rather, they act as scattering centers to disrupt electron drifting in MoS2, which reduces the carrier mobility. In addition, the photostimulated adsorption and desorption could increase the response and recovery rate (Figures 13(j)–13(l)).
In addition, the light illumination is not only able to alter the carrier concentration of the sensing material but also able to modify the properties of certain target gas molecules. For example, Wu et al. [59] observed opposite sensing responses of a MoTe2-based acetone sensor with and without light illumination. This is because the UV activation of the acetyl group of acetone can induce its transformation from a weak reducing agent into a weak oxidizing agent. Such unique chemical characteristic of ketone molecules may enable their selective detection in a VOC mixture.
2.2.4. Formation of MC-Based Heterostructures
Heterostructures that combine dissimilar 2D materials have shown interesting properties that differ from their individual 2D components [127, 128]. Based on the different spatial arrangements of the 2D constituents in a heterostructure, they can be classified as vertical or lateral heterostructures. The vertical heterostructures can be created via stacking different 2D crystals one above another, stabilized by the weak van der Waals force [129–132]. The lateral heterostructures are constructed from edge-connected 2D crystals, creating 1D interfaces [133]. In terms of the type of constituent 2D materials, on the other hand, 2D heterostructures can be classified as either metal-semiconductor heterostructures or semiconductor-semiconductor heterostructures. Based on such classification, in the following context, we introduce gas sensors whose performances are enhanced via the formation of heterostructures.
(1) Metal-Semiconductor MC Heterostructures. For many metal chalcogenides, their electronic properties, for example, whether they are metallic or semiconducting, are largely dependent on their compositions and crystal phases [134, 135]. Therefore, metal-semiconductor MC heterostructures can be designed and prepared via controllable synthesis and postsynthesis treatment. As mentioned in Section (4), a Schottky barrier or Ohmic contact can form at the interface between a metal and a semiconductor, depending on the semiconductor type and the relative position of their work functions.
Cho et al. prepared vertical metallic NbSe2/semiconducting WSe2 heterostructures with a NbxW1-xSe2 transition layer at the heterojunction (Figures 14(a)–14(c)) by selenization of WO3 and Nb2O5 films sequentially deposited on a sapphire substrate via the CVD method [136]. Note that the original Schottky barrier height between the p-type WSe2 sensing layer and the Au electrode was 94 meV. This was considerably reduced to 25 meV when WSe2 was made in contact with the metallic NbSe2 via the NbxW1-xSe2 transition layer. The much-reduced barrier height for charge transfer across the electrode-semiconductor interface resulted in a rise in responses toward both NO2 and NH3 (Figures 14(d) and 14(e)). The enhancement in sensing of NO2 is more profound than that in sensing of NH3, resulting in high selectivity toward NO2 (Figure 14(f)).
Metallic 2D materials can act not only as the electrode but also as the active sensing material when interfacing with semiconducting 2D materials. Wang and coworkers epitaxially deposited NH4+-intercalated Sn0.5W0.5S2 nanosheets on the top and bottom surfaces of n-type SnS2 nanoplates to form vertical metal-semiconductor heterostructures with the Ohmic-type interface (Figures 14(g)–14(i)) [137]. The acetone sensing film fabricated from such sandwiched nanoheterostructures exhibited a much-reduced film resistance. As a result, a 35 times lowered background noise and a higher signal-to-noise ratio were achieved. Besides, the formation of Sn0.5W0.5S2 alloy led to increased adsorption energy toward acetone, realizing selective acetone sensing at the 100 ppb level (Figure 14(j)). In addition, compared to other gases like diethyl ether and propanal, acetone has a stronger ability to donate electrons, leading to an appreciable selectivity (Figure 14(k)).
Crystal phase heterostructures of MCs which are constructed from chemically homogeneous but structurally different domains have also shown interesting electronic properties [139]. The use of such phase heterostructures in gas sensing was demonstrated by Yang et al. [138], who prepared alloyed Mo1-xWxS2 nanosheets with tunable 1T/2H phase ratios via a one-pot hydrothermal process. Due to the intercalation of NH4+ ions released by the reaction reagent, semiconducting 2H Mo1-xWxS2 was partially in situ converted to metallic 1T structures, forming phase heterostructures made of randomly distributed domains of 1T and 2H phases (Figure 14(l)). The produced Mo0.87W0.13S2 nanosheets with a 1T concentration of ∼10% showed the best gas sensing performance toward acetone, which was attributed to an optimized combination of the conductive 1T domains and the metal-semiconductor heterointerfaces between the 1T and 2H phases (Figures 14(m) and 14(n))
(2) Semiconductor-Semiconductor MC-Based Heterostructures. When an n-type semiconductor and a p-type semiconductor are brought into contact, the different carrier concentrations at the interface induce carrier diffusion, and a charge depletion layer with a built-in potential is formed, which controls the charge flow at the heterointerface. Given the exponential relationship between the current and the energy barrier at the heterojunction, gas-induced modulation of the barrier height can lead to a sharp change of the channel current, i.e., a large sensing response [75, 78, 79, 140]. For example, Feng et al. prepared a NO2 sensor based on BP/MoSe2 vertical heterostructures through stacking p-type BP on n-type MoSe2 flakes exfoliated from their respective bulk crystals [74]. The gas sensing performance of the BP/MoSe2 sensor toward NO2 was significantly improved, exhibiting 4.4 and 46 times higher response toward 200 ppb NO2 as compared to that of a pure BP sensor or MoSe2 FET sensor, respectively. The authors simulated the band diagram of the BP/MoSe2 heterojunction before and after NO2 adsorption at equilibrium conditions. The result indicates a rise of the total built-in potential at the junction, i.e., from 0.30 to 0.36 eV, leading to a higher barrier for electron transport and a much-reduced channel conductance.
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MXenes are an emerging family of 2D materials, including layered metal carbides, carbonitrides, and nitrides, with a general formula of Mn+1Xn, where M is a transition metal (such as Ti, Nb, and Mo) and X is carbon and/or nitrogen [142–144]. MXenes are normally prepared from layered ternary metal carbides/nitrides, also called MAXs, through selective etching away the “A” layer (group IIIA or IVA elements, e.g., Al, Si, and Ge) (Figure 15) [145]. Till now, over 20 types of MXenes have been discovered, experimentally prepared, and explored in energy storage [146], desalination [147], electromagnetic interference shielding [148], catalysis [149], sensing [150], and other fields [151].
Unlike chemically modified graphene, whose surface functionalities and hydrophilicity are normally achieved at the expense of their electrical conductivity, MXenes exhibit excellent electrical conductivity and possess hydrophilic surfaces with functional groups [145, 148, 152]. These features make them appealing candidates in electrical sensing devices, where good electrical conductivity for low background noise and surface functional groups for interacting with gas molecules are both essential requirements.
3.1. Sensing Mechanisms
Similar to MCs, charge transfer upon gas adsorption has been proposed as a possible mechanism for MXene-based gas sensors [1, 154]; however, some contradictory phenomena have been observed. For example, Kim et al. [152] found that a Ti3C2Tx-based sensor showed increased channel resistance regardless of whether the target gas is donating or withdrawing electrons. This is in sharp contrast to the dopant type-dependent gas sensing behavior observed in most semiconducting sensing materials. One possible explanation is that most MXenes are narrow-bandgap semiconductors or metal-like, and thus, charge transfer from the target gas could not cause much change in their conductivity [152]. On the contrary, the gas adsorption-induced charge scattering, which reduces the carrier mobility of MXene, might become the dominant cause of the resistance increase [155].
Whether a MXene-based gas sensor is working based on the charge transfer, carrier scattering, or both, its sensing behavior is dependent on factors such as its composition, surface chemistry, and dopant type/concentration, as well as working temperature (Table 2) [155–158].
3.1.1. Effect of Terminal Groups
Most MXenes can be prepared by HF etching or fluoride-based salt etching [145, 151, 159]. The etching process is sometimes accompanied by the ion intercalation into the interlayer spaces, for example, with large solvent molecules such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) under sonication [160]. Alternatively, the etching and delamination process can be combined into one step, especially when fluoride-based salts are used as the etchants [142, 161]. The processing conditions such as the type and concentration of etchant, the etching period and temperature, and the subsequent sonication time and temperature [151] all have influences on the size/thickness, crystallinity, and surface chemistry of the resulting MXene nanosheets/nanoflakes [142].
As-exfoliated MXenes generally have mixed terminal groups (-OH, -O, and -F) [162, 163], and the ratio between them is dependent on the exfoliation process and the subsequent treatment. For example, as-prepared MXene nanosheets can be rinsed with or stored in water to obtain a higher -OH ratio [164]; and a higher concentration of -O can be achieved by etching with fluoride-based salt rather than HF [162].
The electronic transport properties of MXenes could be influenced considerably by their surface terminal groups [165, 166]. Theoretical works have predicted that many MXenes are intrinsically metallic without surface groups (e.g., -F, -OH, or -O) [167, 168]. The surface functional groups may turn their intrinsic metallic nature into semiconducting with calculated bandgaps varying between 0.25 and 2.0 eV [154, 169]. Lee et al. [27] identified that as-prepared Ti3C2Tx nanosheets were p-type semiconductors, and NH3 molecules could be absorbed preferentially on their surface defects or functional groups such as -O and -OH to donate electrons and increase the film resistance.
Among the -O, -OH, and -F terminal groups on Ti3C2Tx, the -F group, as theoretically predicted, is likely to induce the largest electron transmission and thus the highest current at a given bias [166]. Therefore, controlling the relative -F concentration is able to effectively modulate the electrical conductivity of the MXene which is an important parameter affecting the gas sensing performance [150]. The -OH terminal group, on the other hand, could provide partially occupied nearly free electron (NFE) states in MXenes. The NFE states are located near the Fermi level and therefore can provide the hole and electron channels under low bias voltages. Examples of MXenes that exhibit the NFE states include Ti2C(OH)2, Zr2C(OH)2, Zr2N(OH)2, Hf2N(OH)2, Nb2C(OH)2, and Ta2C(OH)2 [169–171]. Importantly, the NFE states are sensitive to environmental perturbations; for example, they might be diminished upon adsorption of gases like O2, H2, and CO [169, 171]. Thus, MXenes with -OH terminal groups are suitable for gas sensors.
In most cases, -O, -OH, and -F terminal groups coexist in MXenes, and studies have found that different terminal ratios may lead to different affinities toward certain gases. By using the first-principle simulation, Hajian et al. [172] compared the gas adsorption behaviors of Ti3C2(OH)0.44F0.88O0.66 and Ti3C2(OH)0.66F0.22O1.11 toward NH3, CO2, NO, H2S, and SO2. Both MXenes showed stronger and specific interaction with NH3 than with other gases; the Ti3C2(OH)0.66F0.22O1.11 with a higher -O/-F termination ratio was found to be slightly more sensitive toward NH3, as indicated by a more negative adsorption energy (-0.49 eV) and a larger amount of charge transfer (0.099 e) as compared with Ti3C2(OH)0.44F0.88O0.66 (-0.36 eV and 0.098 e, respectively).
3.1.2. Doping
The specific affinity of MXenes for a target gas can be controlled by elemental doping. For example, Mn-doped Sc2CO2 showed a much higher adsorption energy of -0.85 eV for CO as compared with pristine MXene (-0.14 eV), along with a 10 times increased charge transfer, i.e., from 0.017 e to 0.199 e, per CO molecule [173].
3.2. Modification of Sensing Properties
3.2.1. Intercalation
The polar groups decorated on both sides of MXene sheets render them highly hydrophilic and enable the facile intercalation of ions and polar molecules. Recently, Yang et al. [174] intercalated alkali metal ions (e.g., Na+) into Ti3C2Tx and demonstrated its potential for humidity sensing (Figures 16(a) and 16(b)). The sensor exhibited a 60 times increase in response as the RH was increased from 33% to 95% (Figures 16(c) and 16(d)). Such good performance was attributed to the improved H2O adsorption in the presence of Na+ ions via the formation of [Na(H2O)m]+ clusters (Figure 16(e)). This in turn increased the amount of H2O molecules to transfer charges to Ti3C2Tx. Besides, the intercalation-induced electronic decoupling between layers might improve the conductivity as well [175].
In fact, MXenes with intercalated ions and water molecules could be advantageous in the selective sensing of polar vapor molecules. This was demonstrated by Koh et al. [176] that laminated Ti3C2Tx treated with NaOH solution exhibited a selective response toward ethanol as against CO2 (Figures 16(f) and 16(g)). This is because, as compared to CO2, ethanol molecules are more hydrophilic and easier to diffuse into the interlayer spaces in the presence of H2O and Na+. However, it is worth noting that the concentration of Na+ ions should not be too high; otherwise, an ordered Na+-H2O structure might form to hinder the further insertion of ethanol molecules.
3.2.2. Formation of Heterostructures
Considering the fact that a large number of MXenes are metal-like in nature, their gas sensing performance can be enhanced by coupling them with semiconducting materials. As in a very recent work by Chen et al., an ethanol sensor based on Ti3C2Tx/WSe2 heterostructures (Figures 17(a) and 17(b)) exhibited over 12-fold improvement of sensitivity as compared with pristine Ti3C2Tx (Figures 17(c) and 17(d)) [177]. Based on their band alignment diagram (Figures 17(e) and 17(f)), an Ohmic contact is formed between Ti3C2Tx and WSe2. Before gas adsorption, electrons in the sensing film might be trapped by preabsorbed oxygen species (O2−and O−) from the air, resulting in the formation of an electron depletion layer at the heterointerface. When the sensor was exposed to ethanol, the oxygen species reacted with ethanol and generated CO2 and H2O. This resulted in the release of electrons and reduction of the width of the electron depletion layer, leading to an evident drop in the film resistance.
3.2.3. Effect of an External Field
The stress field or strain imposed on a 2D material (Figure 18(a)) may change its interatomic distances and thus its crystalline and electronic structure [178]. This in turn can alter its electrical response upon gas adsorption, which is a process likely involving adsorption configuration, charge state modification, and orbital hybridization change between the gas molecules and the sensing material [179, 180]. For example, based on first-principle calculations, Yu et al. [180] found that the sensing response of Ti2CO2 toward NH3 could be significantly improved under tensile strain (Figure 18(b)). This is because the tensile strain could reduce the number of electrons on the Ti atoms, and such electron deficiency could strengthen the adsorption of NH3 on Ti2CO2 and increase the amount of charges transferred between them. Furthermore, other gases such as CO, NO2, and O2 are almost insensitive to strain, which would result in the further improved selectivity of Ti2CO2 toward NH3 under strain (Figure 18(b)). Similarly, Yang et al. theoretically verified that the NO adsorption behavior of Sc2CO2 could be influenced by strain [173].
In addition to the stress field, the application of an external electric field (Figure 18(c)) can also influence the interaction between the gas molecules and the sensing materials via dipole-dipole interaction [181]. Normally, the charge density distribution in a gas-solid interaction system is asymmetrical, and a built-in electric field with a net dipole moment will be generated [182]. The larger the dipole moment, the larger the amount of the exchanged electrons between the gas molecules and the sensing material [183]. An external electric field could thus offset or enhance the built-in electric field and therefore is able to control the direction and quantity of the charge transfer [182, 184, 185]. In a recent theoretical investigation based on first-principle calculations, Ma et al. [181] reported that the adsorption energy and charge transfer of SO2 on Sc2CO2 could be modulated by applying an electric field (Figures 18(d) and 18(e)). It is interesting that the amount of charge transferred from Sc2CO2 to SO2 increases linearly as the electric field is increased from negative to positive, a trend that is less obvious in other systems involving Hf2CO2, Zr2CO2, and Ti2CO2 (Figure 18(d)). This is attributed to the stronger interaction between SO2 and Sc2CO2 due to the intrinsic net dipole moment present in the monolayer Sc2CO2. It is also important to note that the external field should not be too high to ensure easy desorption of gas molecules.
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Layer-structured black phosphorus (BP) was previously prepared from white phosphorus through high-temperature and high-pressure treatments [187]. Alike graphene, monolayers of BP stack together via the van der Waals interaction to form layered BP crystals [188]. Isolated single-layer BP, also termed phosphorene, was firstly prepared via the scotch tape-based microcleavage method [189]. The hole mobility of bulk BP is about 1000 cm2 V−1 s−1, and that for phosphorene can reach up to 10,000 cm2 V−1 s−1 [190–192]. Similar to the other 2D atomic crystals, BP possesses the thickness-dependent bandgap energy, which varies from ~1.5 eV for the monolayer to ~0.3 eV for the bulk BP [29, 188]. This correlates to light adsorption covering wavelengths ranging from the near-infrared to middle-infrared bands which is in between that of graphene and that of MCs [193, 194]. These advantages make BP extremely attractive for electronics and optoelectronics, and therefore, they have been extensively explored in applications such as memories [195, 196], photodetectors [197, 198], and sensors [199, 200].
For gas sensing, in particular, BP has demonstrated several attractive features. For example, BP possesses a high theoretical surface-to-volume ratio due to its puckered double-layer structure, which can offer abundant adsorption sites for target analytes [201]. Besides, BP has been predicted to possess high adsorption energies toward many small gas molecules such as NO2, NO, NH3, CO, and SO2 [202–204]. In the following contents, we introduce BP-based gas sensors, emphasize their working principles involving charge transfer, surface reaction, and mass change, and describe strategies used to enhance their gas sensing performance (Table 3).
4.1. Sensing Mechanisms
4.1.1. Sensing via Charge Transfer
Alike MCs and MXenes, charge transfer is the dominant gas sensing mechanism for BP. In an early demonstration, a multilayer p-type BP-based FET NO2 sensor was fabricated by Abbas et al., and a minimum detectable concentration down to 5 ppb was achieved (Figures 19(a) and 19(b)) [199]. The change of conductance as a function of NO2 concentration could be fitted well with the Langmuir isotherm, suggesting that the NO2 adsorption-induced charge transfer is the dominant cause of the conductance change (Figure 19(c)). It was later pointed out by Cho and coworkers that BP exhibited a higher adsorption energy for NO2 as compared to graphene and MoS2 based on DFT calculations [205], and they experimentally demonstrated the superior sensing performance of BP in terms of sensitivity, response time, and selectivity [205].
A systematic DFT calculation study by Kou et al. reveals the different adsorption behaviors of several gas molecules including CO, CO2, NH3, NO, and NO2 on BP (Figures 19(d)–19(r)) [202]. The carbon atoms of CO molecules and nitrogen atoms of NH3 molecules are likely located at the center of the puckered honeycomb of BP, whereas CO2 molecules are adsorbed at the bridges of the P-P bonds. Among these gases, only NO interacts with BP via the formation of P-N bonds, whereas other gases stay above the basal layer at a distance without bond formation. Their results also indicate larger adsorption energies and enhanced charge transfer of N-based gases (e.g., NOx and NH3) on BP as compared to CO and CO2.
From the previous knowledge gained from graphene and MC-based gas sensors, and considering the fact that BP possesses a direct bandgap that increases when reducing the layer number [189, 206], it can be expected that BP also exhibits the thickness-dependent sensing behavior. Cui and coworkers suggested that a thinner BP nanosheet with a larger bandgap and less intrinsic carriers might transfer less charges to a target gas, e.g., NO2. However, a thicker BP with a smaller bandgap would undergo less change of conductivity due to its high carrier concentration [29]. Therefore, an optimum thickness exists to maximize the gas sensing performance. They predicted that nanosheets with 4.3-10 nm thickness could deliver the best sensitivity (Figure 20(a)). This agrees with their experimental result: the sensor based on ~4.8 nm BP nanosheets exhibited higher responses toward sub-ppm levels of NO2 than those based on bulk BP and BP with thicknesses ranging from 6 to 200 nm (Figures 20(b)–20(d)), along with an extremely good selectivity (Figure 20(e)).
The gas adsorption-induced charge transfer can be reflected, in addition to the resistance change mentioned above, also as a change of impedance [207]. As an example, layered BP nanosheets were used to sense methanol vapor via electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements by Mayorga-Martinez and coworkers [208]. The sensor showed high selectivity and sensitivity toward 28 ppm methanol under an alternative current (AC) frequency of 1 kHz. The equivalent circuit is shown in Figure 20(f), which consists of the resistance and capacitance components. The resistance change was attributed to the charge transfer from the target gas to BP [209], whereas the capacitance change arose from the change of dielectric constants at the Au electrode/BP interface, which is related to the number of absorbed gas molecules based on polarization [210]. For example, methanol and ethanol have different dielectric constants of 32.7 and 24.6 and different resonance frequencies of ~103 Hz and over 105 Hz, respectively. Such difference enables the selective detection of methanol realized at 103 Hz [208].
Similar to many semiconductor electronic devices, the supporting substrate such as SiO2/Si for a BP-based sensing film can introduce dopants, scattering centers, or traps that can modify BP’s electrical transport properties and influence its sensing performance [211, 212]. To alleviate the effect of the substrate, Lee and colleagues fabricated a gas sensor by placing a BP nanoflake over a wet-etched SiO2 trench in a SiO2/Si substrate (Figure 20(g)) [213]. Due to the elimination of charge scattering from the substrate and the increased gas adsorption sites on both sides of a suspended BP nanoflake, the sensor showed a 23% higher response and a two times faster rate of desorption toward 200 ppm NO2 as compared with BP supported on the substrate (Figure 20(h)).
4.1.2. Surface Reaction
The surface hydrophilicity of BP and its susceptibility to surface reactions have enabled its application in humidity sensing [214]. The charge transfer from water to BP has been suggested by several groups as the main working principle for BP-based humidity sensors [32, 215, 216]. First-principle calculations by Cai and coworkers also showed that each H2O molecule could donate about 0.035 e to BP [217]. However, the investigation carried out by Yasaei et al. suggested otherwise. They fabricated a BP sensor capable of achieving ∼4 orders of the current increase as the RH was varied from 10% to 85% (Figures 21(a)–21(c)) [218]. Interestingly, this humidity sensor showed very high selectivity, evidenced by the orders of lower response toward common polar gases, such as ethanol, toluene, and dichlorobenzene (DCB). This also suggests that the charge transfer should not be the main reason behind the high sensing response toward water vapor (Figure 21(d)). In addition, the effect from the BP/electrode contact was also excluded, because the sensor with InGa eutectic and Au electrodes showed a similar sensing response (Figure 21(e)). They thus proposed that when the BP flakes were exposed to humid air, they could react with water to form phosphorus oxoacids. The autoionization of water and ionic dissolution of the acid could generate a large number of mobile ions and thereby decrease the resistance of the BP channel.
4.1.3. Sensing via Mass Change
As mentioned in Introduction, BP can be fabricated into QCM-based humidity sensors because of the high affinity of BP for water molecules. For example, Yao et al. [31] fabricated a QCM-based humidity sensor by depositing BP nanosheets onto the electrode surface of a QCM (Figure 22(a)). The change in the resonance frequency (Δf) of the quartz correlates to the amount of water molecules adsorbed on BP. A large response, i.e., 863 Hz, 1698 Hz, and 3145 Hz of the frequency shift for the three sensors fabricated with an increasing amount of BP (QCM-2, QCM-4, and QCM-6 correspond to 2, 4, and 6  μL of BP nanosheets deposited on the electrode), respectively, was achieved as the humidity was increased from 11.3% to 97.3% (Figures 22(b) and 22(c)). Such a high response was also accompanied by a fast response and recovery time, good repeatability, and long-term stability. The selectivity of this type of gas sensor depends on the specific adsorption of BP toward water molecules.
4.2. Approaches to Enhance Gas Sensing Performance of BP
Very recently, to enhance the sensing performance of BP, strategies such as the incorporation of metal nanoparticles (NPs) and adatom doping have been explored (Figures 23(a) and 23(b)) [219, 220]. Generally speaking, the effects of NP decoration on a sensor’s performance can be twofold, that is, the electronic sensitization effect and the chemical sensitization effect. The former is related to the modulated carrier concentration and mobility, whereas the latter is related to the improved binding affinity for the target gas [221]. Lee et al. demonstrated that pristine BP was insensitive to H2, while Pt NP-functionalized BP nanosheets exhibited high sensitivity to H2 [219]. It is a well-accepted fact that H2 adsorbed on Pt can form PtHx which has a lower work function than Pt [222]. This can result in the spontaneous electron transfer from PtHx to the p-type BP to reduce its conductance [223]. A similar beneficial effect from Pt NP functionalization was reported by Cho et al. [224], demonstrating ultrahigh selectivity in sensing H2 (Figure 23(c)). They also found that the decoration of Au NPs on BP nanosheets could convert BP from the p-type semiconductor to the n-type semiconductor by donating extra electrons. This led to an increased resistance upon exposure to oxidizing gases, such as NO2.
Besides modulating the carrier concentration [225, 226], doping BP with adatoms such as Fe, Ni, and Al is able to enhance its binding affinity for certain gases based on theoretical predictions [220, 226, 227]. For example, the binding energies for NO and CO on BP are -0.32 eV and 0.12 eV, respectively, and increase to -2.58 eV on Fe-doped BP [220] and to -1.16 eV on Ni-doped BP [227], respectively.
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2D materials are promising building blocks in the future development of various sensing platforms. In this review, by looking into the recent experimental and theoretical investigations of the gas sensing behaviors of 2D atomic crystals such as MCs, BP, and MXenes, we have discussed their gas sensing mechanisms and the related influential factors, as well as adoptable approaches that can enhance their sensing performance (Table 4).
Direct gas adsorption-induced charge transfer has been found to be the dominating gas sensing mechanism in many 2D material-based electrical gas sensors such as chemiresistive and FET sensors. Alike conventional semiconducting metal oxide gas sensors, reactions between target gas molecules and preabsorbed oxygen species and water molecules have also been found to occur on the surfaces of MCs or BPs under ambient conditions or at slightly raised temperatures, which induce charge transfer and conductivity change. When the relative humidity becomes high, especially when water molecules are the target for sensing, continuous H+/H3O+ pathways on the 2D material surfaces may form which contribute further to the conductivity change via the proton conduction mechanism. MXenes show special gas sensing behaviors in contrast to most semiconducting MCs and BPs, because many of them are intrinsically metal-like in nature with narrow bandgaps. Therefore, in MXene-based gas sensors, the gas adsorption-induced charge scattering presents another important sensing mechanism in addition to the charge transfer mechanism; which mechanism is dominant depends on the composition, surface chemistry, and dopant type/concentration of the MXene, as well as the working temperature.
Common factors such as the layer number, surface functionalities, electron channel contact, gate bias, and working temperature have been found to influence the gas sensing behaviors of 2D materials. Again, MXenes are special in a way that their terminal groups, which can be controlled by the synthesis and treatment methods, can exert profound effects on their band structures and therefore sensing pathways.
Further enhancement of the gas sensing performance of the various 2D material-based devices, in terms of sensitivity, selectivity, and response/recovery time, can be achieved via the creation of 3D porous networks, adatom doping/ion intercalation, formation of composites/heterostructures, and application of light, stress field, or electrostatic field. For example, the creation of 3D porous networks can enlarge gas-solid interaction surfaces and improve gas adsorption/desorption kinetics; the formation of heterostructures can modulate charge transport barriers; and light activation can increase the charge carrier concentration and even modify the molecular orbital structure of the target gas.
Understanding the sensing mechanisms involving surface processes is of paramount importance in the further development of advanced sensing materials and device structures. This requires advanced surface characterization techniques, especially those capable of in situ monitoring. For example, synchrotron-based in situ time-resolved X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy can help characterize the chemical states of the initial, intermediate, and final structure of a sensing material during the sensing process, which is favorable for speculating the sensing process and analysis of the sensing mechanism.
As the map of 2D atomic crystals continues to expand over the years, emerging 2D materials such as borophene, arsenene, antimonene, and BiOSe [1, 228–231] are also promising candidates for gas sensing. For example, borophene, a single layer of boron atoms, and related derivatives have been prepared recently [232–236]. A number of theoretical investigations have shown their potential applications in the chemiresistive type of gas sensors for VOCs such as ethanol [237], formaldehyde [238], acetaldehyde [239], and propanal [239], as well as uncommon toxic gases such as HCN [240], COCl2, and CO [241]. These novel 2D material-based gas sensing systems require further experimental exploitations.
It is however the common obstacle facing most gas sensing nanomaterials that they show limited selectivity. Although preferred gas adsorption, surface reaction, intercalation, and carrier doping have rendered these 2D materials with a certain level of selectivity, there is still big room for improvement when compared with spectroscopy-based sensing systems. Besides, for room temperature sensors, the interference from the variation of ambient temperature and relative humidity is unneglectable and can largely affect the sensor selectivity. The fabrication of sensor arrays combined with data processing has been an effective strategy to improve sensing selectivity and has been used in many commercial electrical sensors. Very recently, single-atom catalysts (SACs) have been prepared on metal oxide via surface coordination to improve the selectivity and sensitivity of room temperature gas sensors, which can also be adopted for 2D material-based gas sensors. For example, atomic Pd can provide a higher adsorption efficiency for oxygen species which in turn enhances the sensitivity and selectivity toward CO [242]. In addition, as compared with a single-output sensor, which is the case for most reported 2D material-based electrical sensors, a gas sensor with multivariant signal output is capable of achieving better selectivity and reliability [243]. For example, a suitable 2D crystal can be integrated into a device that can output electrical resistance change as well as resonance frequency change as in a QCM setup. This actually demands strongly on the future exploration of smart gas sensing materials.
Durability is a key issue facing practical gas sensors. This becomes particularly challenging when surface reactions are involved in the sensing process in the presence of humid air at elevated working temperatures. Surface incorporation with metal NPs to induce catalytic reaction instead of direct reaction between the gas molecules and the 2D material might help improve the sensor stability. In addition, the use of a humidity filter or functionalization of the 2D material with molecules with hydrophobic terminal groups can reduce the effect of humidity; however, this may also reduce sensitivity and increase response time. Besides, the incorporation of 2D materials in the optic fiber and photonic crystal gas sensors may offer enhanced durability as compared to chemiresistive gas sensors.
One of the advantages of 2D materials lies in their intrinsic flexibility which enables their integration into wearable and portable gas sensors for applications such as real-time environmental monitoring [244] and analysis of breath content for health monitoring [27]. Although much progress has been made in gas sensing with 2D materials, wearable and portable gas sensors have shown limited development. This is largely due to the reduced sensitivity and durability under bending or stretched conditions because both the mechanical strain and gas adsorption can change the sensing response. Such crosstalk problem might be tackled by proper structure design and use of sensor arrays with data processing.
Currently, most commercially available gas sensors are based on metal oxides which function at elevated temperatures. Gas sensors based on 2D materials are able to deliver enhanced sensitivity at room temperature at reduced power consumption. However, their sensing responses at low gas concentrations are still not high enough such that they are prone to environmental perturbations. In other words, factors such as humidity, temperature, and strain may cause unneglectable changes to the sensing response and affect their reliability and durability. Therefore, there is an urgent need to explore novel 2D gas sensing materials with high sensitivity, selectivity, and stability and develop new strategies to further improve the sensitivity of room temperature 2D material gas sensors.
Funding
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  • Northwestern Polytechnical University(CX2020293)
  • Joint Research Funds of Department of Science & Technology of Shaanxi Province and Northwestern Polytechnical University(2020GXLH-Z-027; 2020GXLH-Z-026)
  • Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China(51811530018; 61935017; 51832001)
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doi: 10.34133/2021/9863038
  • Receive Date：2020-11-13
  • Online Date：2026-10-27
  • Published：2021-04-20
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  • Received：2020-11-13
  • Accepted：2021-03-22
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Northwestern Polytechnical University(CX2020293)
Joint Research Funds of Department of Science & Technology of Shaanxi Province and Northwestern Polytechnical University(2020GXLH-Z-027; 2020GXLH-Z-026)
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
National Natural Science Foundation of China(51811530018; 61935017; 51832001)
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    1Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Xi’an Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), and Xi’an Institute of Biomedical Materials & Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi’an 710072, China
    2Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing 211800, China
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表12种不同金属材料的力学参数
科
Family		 属数
Number of
genus		 种数
Number of
species		 占总种数比例
Percentage of
total species (%)		 属
Genus		 种数
Number of
species		 占总种数比例
Percentage of total
species (%)
鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae 2 11 5.26 鹅膏菌属 Amanita 10 4.78
小菇科 Mycenaceae 2 12 5.74 丝盖伞属 Inocybe 5 2.39
多孔菌科 Polyporaceae 8 14 6.70 蜡蘑属 Laccaria 5 2.39
红菇科 Russulaceae 3 23 11.00 小皮伞属 Marasmius 6 2.87
小菇属 Mycena 11 5.26
光柄菇属 Pluteus 5 2.39
红菇属 Russula 17 8.13
栓菌属 Trametes 5 2.39
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