吸附
碳纳米纤维
纳米纤维
复合数
化学工程
检出限
材料科学
涂层
热液循环
化学
碳纤维
光电子学
纳米技术
碳纳米管
复合材料
物理化学
工程类
色谱法
作者
Yi Xu,Jiayue Xie,Yunfan Zhang,Fuyang Tian,Chen Yang,Wei Zheng,Xianghong Liu,Jun Zhang,Nicola Pinna
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125120
摘要
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold great promise for room temperature (RT) NO2 sensors. However, the exposure of the edges of TMDs with high adsorption capability and electronic activity remains a great obstacle to achieve high sensor sensitivity. Herein, we demonstrate a high-performance RT NO2 gas sensor based on WS2 nanosheets/carbon nanofibers (CNFs) composite with abundant intentionally exposed WS2 edges. Few-layer WS2 nanosheets are anchored on CNFs through a hydrothermal process. The approach permits to achieve a coating presenting an optimized active surface area and accessibility of the sensing layers. The exposure of WS2 edges remarkably improves the sensing properties. Consequently, the WS2@CNFs composite exhibits excellent selectivity to NO2 at RT with improved response and much lower detection limit in comparison to the WS2 and CNFs counterparts. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations verify a surprisingly strong NO2 adsorption on WS2 edge sites (adsorption energy 3.40 eV) with a partial charge transfer of 0.394e, while a week adsorption on the basal surface of WS2 (adsorption energy 0.25 eV) with a partial charge transfer of 0.171e. The strategy proposed herein will be instructive to the design of efficient material structures for low-power NO2 sensors with optimized performances.
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