| Title: | Highly Selective Xylene Sensor Based on NiO/NiMoO(4) Nanocomposite Hierarchical Spheres for Indoor Air Monitoring |
| Author(s): | Kim BY; Ahn JH; Yoon JW; Lee CS; Kang YC; Abdel-Hady F; Wazzan AA; Lee JH; |
| Address: | "Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University , Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, King Abdulaziz University , Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia" |
| Journal Title: | ACS Appl Mater Interfaces |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1944-8252 (Electronic) 1944-8244 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Xylene is a hazardous volatile organic compound, which should be measured precisely for monitoring of indoor air quality. The selective detection of ppm-level xylene using oxide semiconductor chemiresistors, however, remains a challenging issue. In this study, NiO/NiMoO(4) nanocomposite hierarchical spheres assembled from nanosheets were prepared by hydrothermal reaction, and the potential of sensors composed of these nanocomposites to selectively detect xylene gas was investigated. The sensors based on the NiO/NiMoO(4) nanocomposite hierarchical spheres exhibited high responses (maximum resistance ratio =101.5) to 5 ppm p-xylene with low cross-responses (resistance ratios <30) to 5 ppm toluene, benzene, C(2)H(5)OH, CH(3)COCH(3), HCHO, CO, trimethylamine, and NH(3). In contrast, a sensor based on pure NiO hierarchical spheres exhibited negligibly low responses to all 9 analyte gases. The gas-sensing mechanism underlying the high selectivity and response to xylene in the NiO/NiMoO(4) nanocomposite hierarchical spheres is discussed in relation to the catalytic promotion of the xylene-sensing reaction by synergistic combination between NiO and NiMoO(4), gas-accessible hierarchical morphology, and electronic sensitization by Mo addition. Highly selective detection of xylene can pave the road toward a new solution for precise monitoring of indoor air pollution" |
| Keywords: | NiMoO4 NiO hierarchical structures selective gas sensor xylene; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEKim, Bo-Young Ahn, Jee Hyun Yoon, Ji-Wook Lee, Chul-Soon Kang, Yun Chan Abdel-Hady, Faissal Wazzan, Abdulaziz A Lee, Jong-Heun eng 2016/12/13 ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2016 Dec 21; 8(50):34603-34611. doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b13930. Epub 2016 Dec 12" |
