A new catalyst Ti doped CdO thin film for non-enzymatic hydrogen peroxide sensor application

Abstract

A new material, Ti doped CdO (Ti: CdO) semiconductor, is firstly reported by this work for electrochemical non-enzymatic hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) sensor applications which was deposited by a simple, versatile and cost-effective chemical spray pyrolysis method on indium doped tin oxide (ITO) substrate. In the basic studies, first, the withstanding of cubic crystal phase along with worthy crystalline nature is discerned on CdO film after Ti doping, here only the preferentially orientated (200) diffraction plane shifted to (111). Subsequently, the irregular spherically shaped CdO nanoparticles (NPs) morphology changed as nearly uniform size with Ti doping is noticed under thermal pyrolytic decomposition process. The existence of Ti atoms in Ti: CdO film is authentically identified and confirmed using EDX and XPS studies respectively. The absorption and emission properties of CdO and Ti: CdO films are studied and confirmed their narrow band gap nature. Importantly, the Ti: CdO film shows pronounced electrocatalytic activity for the reduction of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) than pure CdO. Hence, the non-enzymatic electrochemical sensing of Ti: CdO electrode shows a lower detection limit, broad linear range, rapid response time and high sensitivity toward H2O2 detection. This result will boost exploring a new opportunity for the deposition of other metal oxides and semiconductors by using a simple chemical spray pyrolysis method for detection of non-enzymatic H2O2 sensor applications.