Direct Organization of Morphology-Controllable Mesoporous SnO2 Using Amphiphilic Graft Copolymer for Gas-Sensing Applications

Autor: Alex Zettl, Carlo Carraro, Hu Long, Jong Hak Kim, Won Seok Chi, Chang Soo Lee, Roya Maboudian, Myoung Hwan Oh
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9:37246-37253
ISSN: 1944-8252
1944-8244
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b07823
Popis: A simple and flexible strategy for controlled synthesis of mesoporous metal oxide films using an amphiphilic graft copolymer as sacrificial template is presented and the effectiveness of this approach for gas-sensing applications is reported. The amphiphilic graft copolymer poly(vinyl chloride)-g-poly(oxyethylene methacrylate) (PVC-g-POEM) is used as a sacrificial template for the direct synthesis of mesoporous SnO2. The graft copolymer self-assembly is shown to enable good control over the morphology of the resulting SnO2 layer. Using this approach, mesoporous SnO2 based sensors with varied porosity are fabricated in situ on a microheater platform. This method reduces the interfacial contact resistance between the chemically sensitive materials and the microheater, while a simple fabrication process is provided. The sensors show significantly different gas-sensing performances depending on the SnO2 porosity, with the highly mesoporous SnO2 sensor exhibiting high sensitivity, low detection limit, and fast...
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