Abstract
Herein, we report the facile hydrothermal synthesis and characterizations of ZnO nanorods assembled microflowers and their efficient sensing application for the detection of formalydehyde gas. The synthesized ZnO microflowers were examined by several techniques. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was employed to evaluate the surface morphology, X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis for the crystal structure while the Fourier transformation infrared (FTIR), and Raman-scattering spectroscopy were employed to understand the functional groups in the synthesized material. The optical properties were evaluated by UV-visible spectroscopy Furthermore, the synthesized ZnO microflowers were used as a functional material to fabricate formaldehyde gas sensor which exhibited a high gas response of 113.36 (Rg/Ra) towards 50 ppm formaldehyde gas at 200 °C. The observed response and recovery times for the fabricated sensor were ∼65 s and ∼117 s, respectively. Finally, the enhancement of gas-sensing performance and mechanism were thoroughly discussed. This work revealed that simply prepared ZnO nanostructures can be used to fabricate high-performance gas sensors.
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