Journal of Inorganic Materials

• Research Paper • Previous Articles     Next Articles

NH3 Sensing Properties of CNT-WO3 Sensors

LI Ling, PAN Qing-Yi, CHENG Zhi-Xuan, DONG Xiao-Wen, CHEN Hai-Hua   

  1. Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200436, China
  • Received:2004-12-01 Revised:2005-01-18 Published:2006-01-20 Online:2006-01-20

Abstract: CNT-WO3 indirectly heated gas sensors were fabricated with carbon nanotubes as the dopant. The as-grown carbon nanotube was purified by mixed acid oxidation process and WO3
nanopowders were prepared by a chemical precipitation method. FT-IR, TEM, TG-DSC and XRD were introduced to characterize them. The gas sensitive
performance of the made sensors was measured at room temperature. The experimental results show the gas sensitivity of the carbon nanotube-doped
sensor is far higher than that of a pure WO3 sensor and the 0.8wt% carbon nanotube-doped sensor has the highest sensitivity. In addition, the carbon
nanotube-doped sensor is superior for its lowest detectable concentration, wide detectable range and excellent gas selectivity. It is an ideal NH3
sensor.

Key words: carbon nanotube, WO3, gas sensitivity, NH3

CLC Number: