Flexible All-Inorganic Room-Temperature Chemiresistors Based on Fibrous Ceramic Substrate and Visible-Light-Powered Semiconductor Sensing Layer

© 2021 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH..

As the most extensively used gas-sensing devices, inorganic semiconductor chemiresistors are facing great challenges in realizing mechanical flexibility and room-temperature gas detection for developing next-generation wearable sensing devices. Herein, for the first time, flexible all-inorganic yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ)/In2 O3 /graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3 N4 ) (ZIC) gas sensor is designed by employing YSZ nanofibers as substrate, and ultrathin In2 O3 /g-C3 N4 heterostructures as active sensing layer. The YSZ substrate possesses small nanofiber diameter (310 nm), ultrafine grain size (23.9 nm), and abundant dangling bonds, endowing it with striking mechanical flexibility and strong adhesion with In2 O3 /g-C3 N4 sensing layer. Meanwhile, the ultrathin thickness (≈7 nm) of In2 O3 /g-C3 N4 ensures that the inorganic sensing layer has tiny linear strain along with the deformation of flexible YSZ substrate, thereby enabling unusual bending capacity. To address the operating temperature issue, the gas sensor is operated by using a visible-light-powered strategy. Under visible-light illumination, the flexible ZIC sensor exhibits a perfectly reversible response/recovery dynamic process and ultralow detection limit of 50 ppb to toxic nitrogen dioxide at room temperature. This work not only provides an insight into the mechanical flexibility of inorganic materials, but also offers a valuable reference for developing other flexible inorganic-semiconductor-based room-temperature gas sensors.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) - 8(2021), 23 vom: 13. Dez., Seite e2102471

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Han, Chaohan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xiaowei [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Yujing [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Mingzhuang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xinghua [VerfasserIn]
Shao, Changlu [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Jiangang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yichun [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Flexible substrate
Inorganic semiconductors
Journal Article
Room temperature
Visible-light-powered gas sensors
Yttria-stabilized zirconia

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 08.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/advs.202102471

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM332123138