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Chemiresistive NH3 detection at sub-zero temperatures by polypyrrole- loaded Sn1-xSbxO2 nanocubes

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Title Chemiresistive NH3 detection at sub-zero temperatures by polypyrrole- loaded Sn1-xSbxO2 nanocubes
 
Creator Chakraborty, Nirman
Mondal, Swastik
 
Subject Electronics
 
Description Chemiresistive gas sensors operate mainly at high temperatures, primarily due to the need of energy for surface adsorption-desorption of analytes. As a result, the operating temperature of the chemiresistive sensors could be reduced only to room temperature. Hence, a plethora of sensing requirements at temperatures below ambient have remained outside the scope of chemiresistive materials. In this work, we have developed an antimony-doped SnO2 nanocube-supported expanded polypyrrole network that could detect low ppm ammonia gas (<= 20 ppm) at sub-zero temperatures with high response (similar to 4), selectivity, and short response and recovery times. The low temperature chemiresistive sensing has been explained in terms of the interplay of an extended conducting network of an in situ deposited polymer, effective transport properties of majority charge carriers and a loosely bound exciton-like electron-hole pair formation and breakage mechanism.
 
Publisher RSC Publishing
 
Date 2022-06
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Identifier Chakraborty, Nirman and Mondal, Swastik (2022) Chemiresistive NH3 detection at sub-zero temperatures by polypyrrole- loaded Sn1-xSbxO2 nanocubes. Materials Horizons, 9 (6). pp. 1750-1762. ISSN 2051-6347
 
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