Abstract
A selective room-temperature ammonia sensor using WS2 nanoflakes as the sensing materials was successfully developed in this work. The two-dimensional WS2 sharing the same structure with MoS2, has a typical graphene-like 2D microstructure. The WS2 nanoflakes based sensor shows a good sensitivity and an excellent selectivity to ammonia at room temperature. The sensor showed an increased resistance when exposed to ammonia from 1ppm to 10ppm indicating a p-type response. The response and recovery time of the sensor to 5ppm ammonia are ∼120s and ∼150s, respectively. The developed ammonia sensor shows excellent selectivity to formaldehyde, ethanol, benzene and acetone at room temperature. The response of the sensor increased as the humidity increase up to 73% possibly due to the sulfides ions-assisted hydroxylation of the co-adsorbed water and the oxidation of the solvated ammonia with adsorbed oxygen ions on the surface of the WS2 nanoflakes.
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