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Ultra-selective detection of sub-ppm-level benzene using Pd-SnO2 yolk-shell micro-reactors with a catalytic Co3O4 overlayer for monitoring air quality

Authors
Jeong, Seong-YongYoon, Ji-WookKim, Tae-HyungJeong, Hyun-MookLee, Chul-SoonKang, Yun ChanLee, Jong-Heun
Issue Date
28-1월-2017
Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
Citation
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, v.5, no.4, pp.1446 - 1454
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Journal Title
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume
5
Number
4
Start Page
1446
End Page
1454
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/84866
DOI
10.1039/c6ta09397c
ISSN
2050-7488
Abstract
Ultra-selective and sensitive detection of carcinogenic benzene vapor with negligible interferences from other major indoor pollutants is not only critical but also challenging because the BTX gases (benzene, toluene, and xylene) are generally less reactive to a majority of n-type oxide semiconductor gas sensors and the similar chemical structures of BTX gases hamper their discrimination by chemiresistive variation. Through this paper, we propose a new strategy to detect sub-ppm-level benzene vapor in a highly selective manner using oxide semiconductor chemiresistors. A Pd-loaded SnO2 yolk-shell sensing film coated with a thin catalytic Co3O4 overlayer showed an ultrahigh response (resistance ratio = 88) to 5 ppm benzene with negligibly low cross-responses to the other representative and ubiquitous indoor pollutants such as toluene, xylene, HCHO, CO, and ethanol. The response to benzene vapor was significantly enhanced by reforming of highly stable benzene into more active and smaller species. The reforming was synergistically assisted by the Co3O4 catalytic overlayer and sensing layer consisting of Pd-loaded SnO2 micro-reactors, while the cross-responses to the other indoor pollutants became low because of the catalytic oxidation of the gases into less-or non-reactive species. This method will pave a new way to the precise monitoring of critically harmful benzene in both indoor and outdoor atmospheres.
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