Superior selectivity and enhanced response characteristics of palladium sensitized vanadium pentoxide nanorods for detection of nitrogen dioxide gas.

J Colloid Interface Sci

Thin Film Nanomaterials Laboratory, Department of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur 416 004, India. Electronic address:

Published: June 2017

Vanadium pentoxide (VO) nanorods have been deposited onto the glass substrates by spraying 75ml of 30mM vanadium trichloride (VCl) solution at optimized substrate temperature of 400°C. The XRD study confirms the formation of orthorhombic crystal structure of VO nanorods. The FE-SEM micrograph shows the nanorods-like morphology of VO. The presence of palladium (Pd) in the Pd-sensitized VO nanorods is confirmed using EDAX study. The gas sensing measurements show that the Pd-sensitized VO sensing material is an outstanding candidate for nitrogen dioxide (NO) gas detection. Obtained results demonstrate that the Pd-sensitized VO nanorods show the superior selectivity for NO gas in comparison with other gases such as NH, HS, CO, CO and SO at an operating temperature of 200°C. It shows the 75% response for 100ppm NO gas concentration with response and recovery times of 22s and 126s, respectively. Finally, the gas sensing mechanism based on chemisorption process is proposed to illustrate how Pd nanoparticles affect the gas sensing characteristics (response and response-recovery times).

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