Abstract

Highlights

Recent progress in noble metal-decorated (NM-D) semiconducting metal oxides (SMOs) gas sensors are summarized.

Gas sensing mechanisms related to noble metal decoration are carefully discussed.

Crucial challenges facing the development of NM-D SMOs gas sensors are analyzed.

Highly sensitive gas sensors with remarkably low detection limits are attractive for diverse practical application fields including real-time environmental monitoring, exhaled breath diagnosis, and food freshness analysis. Among various chemiresistive sensing materials, noble metal-decorated semiconducting metal oxides (SMOs) have currently aroused extensive attention by virtue of the unique electronic and catalytic properties of noble metals. This review highlights the research progress on the designs and applications of different noble metal-decorated SMOs with diverse nanostructures (e.g., nanoparticles, nanowires, nanorods, nanosheets, nanoflowers, and microspheres) for high-performance gas sensors with higher response, faster response/recovery speed, lower operating temperature, and ultra-low detection limits. The key topics include Pt, Pd, Au, other noble metals (e.g., Ag, Ru, and Rh.), and bimetals-decorated SMOs containing ZnO, SnO2, WO3, other SMOs (e.g., In2O3, Fe2O3, and CuO), and heterostructured SMOs. In addition to conventional devices, the innovative applications like photo-assisted room temperature gas sensors and mechanically flexible smart wearable devices are also discussed. Moreover, the relevant mechanisms for the sensing performance improvement caused by noble metal decoration, including the electronic sensitization effect and the chemical sensitization effect, have also been summarized in detail. Finally, major challenges and future perspectives towards noble metal-decorated SMOs-based chemiresistive gas sensors are proposed.

Details

Title
Advances in Noble Metal-Decorated Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Chemiresistive Gas Sensors: Overview
Author
Zhu, Li-Yuan 1 ; Ou, Lang-Xi 1 ; Mao, Li-Wen 2 ; Wu, Xue-Yan 1 ; Liu, Yi-Ping 3 ; Lu, Hong-Liang 1 

 Fudan University, State Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Electronics and Systems, School of Microelectronics, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.8547.e) (ISNI:0000 0001 0125 2443) 
 University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, School of Opto-Electronic Information and Computer Engineering, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.267139.8) (ISNI:0000 0000 9188 055X) 
 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China (GRID:grid.16821.3c) (ISNI:0000 0004 0368 8293) 
Pages
89
Publication year
2023
Publication date
Dec 2023
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
23116706
e-ISSN
21505551
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2889583042
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.