P2GS.12 - Pd-SnO2 Micro-reactor Sensing Film with a Catalytic Co3O4 Overlayer for Ultraselective Detection of Sub-ppmlevel Benzene
- Event
- 17th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors - IMCS 2018
2018-07-15 - 2018-07-19
Vienna, Austria - Chapter
- P-2 - Gas Sensors
- Author(s)
- S. Jeong, J. Yoon, T. Kim, H. Jeong, C. Lee, Y. Chan Kang, J. Lee - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul (Republic of Korea)
- Pages
- 791 - 791
- DOI
- 10.5162/IMCS2018/P2GS.12
- ISBN
- 978-3-9816876-9-9
- Price
- free
Abstract
Benzene, one of the most toxic and ubiquitous gases, is known to induce serious disease such as leukemia and aplastic anemia. Hence, precise detection of carcinogenic benzene is very important for monitoring of air quality and to protect human being. Unfortunately, n-type oxide semiconductor gas sensors show low responses to chemically stable BTX gases (benzene, toluene, and xylene). Moreover, similar chemical structure of BTX gases hamper their discrimination by chemiresistive variation. In this contribution, we suggest a new strategy to detect sub-ppm-level benzene vapor with high selectivity using an oxide semiconductor chemiresistors. Due to unique sensor structure consisting of a Pd-SnO2 yolk-shell sensing film and a thin catalyst Co3O4 overlayer, high selectivity and response (resistance ratio = 88) to 5 ppm benzene was accomplished. The sensor response toward benzene was enhanced by reforming highly stable benzene into more active and smaller species, while the cross-responses to the other indoor pollutants became low through the catalytic oxidation of the gases into less- or non-reactive species. The reforming and oxidation reaction were synergistically assisted by Co3O4 catalytic overlayer and sensing layer consisting of Pd-SnO2 yolkshell micro-reactors. This method will pave a new way to the precise monitoring of critically toxic benzene in both indoor and outdoor atmospheres.