Mesoporous ceria-zirconia solid solutions as oxygen gas sensing material using high temperature hot plates

Author(s):  
S. Abdollahzadeh Ghom ◽  
T. Andreu ◽  
C. Zamani ◽  
J. R. Morante
1994 ◽  
Vol 102 (1184) ◽  
pp. 317-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hironobu SAKATA ◽  
Masatake AMANO ◽  
Yasuyuki KAWASHIMA ◽  
Tetsuya OKAMOTO

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tej Poudel Chhetri ◽  
Lei Kerr ◽  
Nada Masmali ◽  
Herbert Jaeger ◽  
Khalid F. Eid

Nanostructured ZnO has been widely investigated as a gas sensing material. Antimony is an important dopant for ZnO that catalyses its surface reactivity and thus strengthens its gas sensing capability. However, there are not enough studies on the gas sensing of antimony-doped ZnO single wires. We fabricated and characterized ZnO/ZnO:Sb core–shell micro-wires and demonstrated that individual wires are sensitive to oxygen gas flow. Temperature and light illumination strongly affect the oxygen gas sensitivity and stability of these individual wires. It was found that these micro- and nano-wire oxygen sensors at 200°C give the highest response to oxygen, yet a vanishingly small effect of light and temperature variations. The underlying physics and the interplay between these effects are discussed in terms of surface-adsorbed oxygen, oxygen vacancies and hydrogen doping.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Gaiardo ◽  
David Novel ◽  
Elia Scattolo ◽  
Michele Crivellari ◽  
Antonino Picciotto ◽  
...  

The substrate plays a key role in chemoresistive gas sensors. It acts as mechanical support for the sensing material, hosts the heating element and, also, aids the sensing material in signal transduction. In recent years, a significant improvement in the substrate production process has been achieved, thanks to the advances in micro- and nanofabrication for micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) technologies. In addition, the use of innovative materials and smaller low-power consumption silicon microheaters led to the development of high-performance gas sensors. Various heater layouts were investigated to optimize the temperature distribution on the membrane, and a suspended membrane configuration was exploited to avoid heat loss by conduction through the silicon bulk. However, there is a lack of comprehensive studies focused on predictive models for the optimization of the thermal and mechanical properties of a microheater. In this work, three microheater layouts in three membrane sizes were developed using the microfabrication process. The performance of these devices was evaluated to predict their thermal and mechanical behaviors by using both experimental and theoretical approaches. Finally, a statistical method was employed to cross-correlate the thermal predictive model and the mechanical failure analysis, aiming at microheater design optimization for gas-sensing applications.


Author(s):  
Olga Yu Kurapova ◽  
Sergey M. Shugurov ◽  
Evgenia A. Vasil'eva ◽  
Daniil A. Savelev ◽  
Vladimir G. Konakov ◽  
...  

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1708
Author(s):  
Ruochen Peng ◽  
Qu Zhou ◽  
Wen Zeng

As an insulating medium, sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is extensively applied to electrical insulation equipment to ensure its normal operation. However, both partial discharge and overheating may cause SF6 to decompose, and then the insulation strength of electrical equipment will be reduced. The adsorption properties and sensing mechanisms of four SF6 decomposed components (HF, SO2, SOF2 and SO2F2) upon an Au-modified InN (Au-InN) monolayer were studied in this work based on first-principles theory. Meanwhile, the adsorption energy (Ead), charge transfer (QT), deformation charge density (DCD), density of states (DOS), frontier molecular orbital and recovery property were calculated. It can be observed that the structures of the SO2, SOF2 and SO2F2 molecules changed significantly after being adsorbed. Meanwhile, the Ead and QT of these three adsorption systems are relatively large, while that of the HF adsorption system is the opposite. These phenomena indicate that Au-InN monolayer has strong adsorption capacity for SO2, SOF2 and SO2F2, and the adsorption can be identified as chemisorption. In addition, through the analysis of frontier molecular orbital, it is found that the conductivity of Au-InN changed significantly after adsorbing SO2, SOF2 and SO2F2. Combined with the analysis of the recovery properties, since the recovery time of SO2 and SO2F2 removal from Au-InN monolayer is still very long at 418 K, Au-InN is more suitable as a scavenger for these two gases rather than as a gas sensor. Since the recovery time of the SOF2 adsorption system is short at 418 K, and the conductivity of the system before and after adsorption changes significantly, Au-InN is an ideal SOF2 gas-sensing material. These results show that Au-InN has broad application prospects as an SO2, SOF2 and SO2F2 scavenger and as a resistive SOF2 sensor, which is of extraordinary meaning to ensure the safe operation of power systems. Our calculations can offer a theoretical basis for further exploration of gas adsorbent and resistive sensors prepared by Au-InN.


Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 330
Author(s):  
Sangryun Kim ◽  
Kazuaki Kisu ◽  
Shin-ichi Orimo

We report the stabilization of the high-temperature (high-T) phase of lithium carba-closo-decaborate, Li(CB9H10), via the formation of solid solutions in a Li(CB9H10)-Li2(B12H12) quasi-binary system. Li(CB9H10)-based solid solutions in which [CB9H10]− is replaced by [B12H12]2− were obtained at compositions with low x values in the (1−x)Li(CB9H10)−xLi2(B12H12) system. An increase in the extent of [B12H12]2− substitution promoted stabilization of the high-T phase of Li(CB9H10), resulting in an increase in the lithium-ion conductivity. Superionic conductivities of over 10−3 S cm−1 were achieved for the compounds with 0.2 ≤ x ≤ 0.4. In addition, a comparison of the Li(CB9H10)−Li2(B12H12) system and the Li(CB9H10)−Li(CB11H12) system suggests that the valence of the complex anions plays an important role in the ionic conduction. In battery tests, an all-solid-state Li–TiS2 cell employing 0.6Li(CB9H10)−0.4Li2(B12H12) (x = 0.4) as a solid electrolyte presented reversible battery reactions during repeated discharge–charge cycles. The current study offers an insight into strategies to develop complex hydride solid electrolytes.


Author(s):  
Ravi Shankar ◽  
Tien Choy Loh ◽  
Le Khaing Le ◽  
Chun Wei Khor ◽  
Shian Yeu Kam ◽  
...  

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (104) ◽  
pp. 102264-102271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjeev K. Gupta ◽  
Deobrat Singh ◽  
Kaptansinh Rajput ◽  
Yogesh Sonvane

The structural stability and electronic properties of the adsorption characteristics of several toxic gas molecules (NH3, SO2 and NO2) on a germanene monolayer were investigated using density functional theory (DFT) based on an ab initio method.


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