Citation: Mengli Lei, Xinran Zhou, Yidong Zou, Junhao Ma, Fahad A. Alharthi, Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Xuanyu Yang, Yonghui Deng. A facile construction of heterostructured ZnO/Co₃O₄ mesoporous spheres and superior acetone sensing performance[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2021, 32(6): 1998-2004. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2020.10.041 shu

A facile construction of heterostructured ZnO/Co₃O₄ mesoporous spheres and superior acetone sensing performance

Mengli Lei ^a ,
Xinran Zhou ^a ,
Yidong Zou ^{b, **,} ,
Junhao Ma ^a ,
Fahad A. Alharthi ^c ,
Abdulaziz Alghamdi ^c ,
Xuanyu Yang ^a ,
Yonghui Deng ^{a, d, *,}

a.
Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, iChEM, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
b.
Institute of Translational Medicine, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
c.
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
d.
State Key Lab of Transducer Technology, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China

zouyidong217@126.com

yhdeng@fudan.edu.cn

Received Date: 29 September 2020
Revised Date: 21 October 2020
Accepted Date: 28 October 2020
Available Online: 29 October 2020

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The rapid development of internet and internet of things brings new opportunities for the expansion of intelligent sensors, and acetone as a major disease detection indicator (i.e., diabetes) making it become extremely important clinical indicator. Herein, uniform mesoporous ZnO spheres were successfully synthesized via novel formaldehyde-assisted metal-ligand crosslinking strategy. In order to adjust the pore structure of mesoporous ZnO, various mesoporous ZnO spheres were synthesized by changing weight percentage of Zn(NO₃)₂·6H₂O to tannic acid (TA). Moreover, highly active heterojunction mesoporous ZnO/Co₃O₄ has been fabricated based on as-prepared ultra-small Co₃O₄ nanocrystals (ca. 3 nm) and mesoporous ZnO spheres by flexible impregnation technique. Profit from nano-size effect and synergistic effect of p-n heterojunction, mesoporous ZnO/Co₃O₄ exhibited excellent acetone sensing performance with high selectivity, superior sensitivity and responsiveness. Typically, 5 wt% Co₃O₄ embedded mesoporous ZnO sphere showed prominent acetone response (ca. 46 for 50 ppm), which was about 11.5 times higher than that in pure ZnO sensing device, and it was also endowed high cyclic stability. The nanocrystals embedded hybrid material is expected to be used as promising efficient material in the field of catalysis and gas sensing.
- Mesoporous materials,
- P-N heterojunction,
- Nanocrystal,
- Nano-size effect,
- Gas sensing
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