Highly flexible room temperature NO2 sensor based on WO3 nanoparticles loaded MWCNTs-RGO hybrid

Usman Yaqoob; Gwiy-Sang Chung

doi:10.1117/12.2202691

27 February 2016 Highly flexible room temperature NO₂ sensor based on WO₃ nanoparticles loaded MWCNTs-RGO hybrid

Usman Yaqoob, Gwiy-Sang Chung

Proceedings Volume 9749, Oxide-based Materials and Devices VII; 97491U (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2202691
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Fabrication and characterizations of a flexible NO₂ sensor based on tungsten trioxide nanoparticles-loaded multi-walled carbon nanotubes-reduced graphene oxide hybrid (WO₃ NPs-loaded MWCNTs-RGO) on a polyimide/polyethylene terephthalate (PI/PET) substrate have been investigated. A viscous gel of the hybrid materials (WO₃-MWCNTs-RGO) was prepared with the assistance of α-terpineol. To observe the physical and crystalline properties of hybrid materials FESEM, TEM and XRD was carried-out. Afterwards, sensor was fabricated by drop casting hybrid solution between two fingers gold (Au) electrodes. Finally, gas sensing properties were taken out in open air environment. The sensor showed excellent sensing performance towards NO₂ including a maximum response of 17% (to 5 ppm), a limit of detection (LOD) of 1 ppm, and relatively short response/recovery time (7/15 min). The sensing behaviors of the fabricated flexible sensor were evaluated systematically at different curvature angles (0-90°) and after several times bending and relaxing (0-10⁷). The sensor exhibited excellent mechanical flexibility and sensing properties at room temperature without any significant performance degradation even at a curvature angle of 90° and after 10⁶ times bending and relaxing process. The results indicates that economical, light weight and mechanical robustness of the proposed WO₃ NPs-MWCNTs- RGO hybrid based sensor can be a promising building block for the development of high performance flexible NO₂ sensors.

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Usman Yaqoob and Gwiy-Sang Chung "Highly flexible room temperature NO₂ sensor based on WO₃ nanoparticles loaded MWCNTs-RGO hybrid", Proc. SPIE 9749, Oxide-based Materials and Devices VII, 97491U (27 February 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2202691

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