Abstract
Although titanium-based MXenes have been widely reported for gas sensing, the effect of crystal stoichiometric variations on the sensing properties has been rarely reported. Herein, stoichiometric polymorphs of titanium carbide MXenes (i.e., Ti3C2Tx and Ti2CTx) loaded with Pd nanodots (NDs) prepared by photochemical reduction were investigated for room-temperature H2 sensing. Interestingly, we found that Pd/Ti2CTx exhibited greatly enhanced sensitivity to H2, along with faster response and recovery rates compared to Pd/Ti3C2Tx. The H2 adsorption induced resistance change in Pd/Ti2CTx was higher than that of Pd/Ti3C2Tx due to the more effective charge transfer at the heterointerface of Pd/Ti2CTx, which was confirmed by shifts of binding energies and theoretical calculation results. We hope this work could be helpful to design more high-performance MXene-based gas sensors.
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