AI Chat Paper
Discover the SciOpen Platform and Achieve Your Research Goals with Ease.
Search articles, authors, keywords, DOl and etc.
{{expandStatus?'Exit ':''}}Advanced Search
High-performance gas sensing devices have been extensively studied in industrial production, clinical medicine and environmental monitoring. Among the materials used to fabricate gas sensors, two-dimensional (2D) materials are viewed as favorable candidate sensing materials because of their high surface-to-volume ratios, abundant surface activity, defect sites. However, gas sensors based on the previously reported 2D materials have some disadvantages such as poor air-stability and slow dynamic response. Recently, borophene, as a unique 2D material, has been theoretically predicted to have excellent gas sensing characteristic, especially for nitrogen dioxide (NO2). However, the gas sensing property of borophene has not been still reported experimentally. Here, we report that a chemiresistive sensor device based on borophene shows high sensitivity, fast response, high selectivity, good flexibility and long-time stability. It is found that the sensor has a low experimental detection limit of around 200 ppb, a large detection range from 200 ppb to 100 ppm, and fast response time of 30 s and recovery time of 200 s at room temperature, which are remarkably superior to those of reported 2D materials. The underlying NO2 sensing mechanism of borophene is revealed by first-principles calculations. In line with theoretical predication, it has also been confirmed experimentally that the borophene-based sensor has a unique selectivity to NO2 compared with other common gases. Furthermore, the sensor also displays superior flexibility and stability under different bending angles. This study shows excellent electronic and sensing characteristic of borophene, which indicates that it has great potential application value in high-performance sensing and detection in the future.
Piazza, Z. A.; Hu, H. S.; Li, W. L.; Zhao, Y. F.; Li, J.; Wang, L. S. Planar hexagonal B36 as a potential basis for extended single-atom layer boron sheets. Nat. Commun. 2014, 5, 3113.
Zhang, Z. H.; Penev, E. S.; Yakobson, B. I. Two-dimensional boron: Structures, properties and applications. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2017, 46, 6746–6763.
Sergeeva, A. P.; Popov, I. A.; Piazza, Z. A.; Li, W. L.; Romanescu, C.; Wang, L. S.; Boldyrev, A. I. Understanding boron through size-selected clusters: Structure, chemical bonding, and fluxionality. Acc. Chem. Res. 2014, 47, 1349–1358.
Sun, X.; Liu, X. F.; Yin, J.; Yu, J.; Li, Y.; Hang, Y.; Zhou, X. C.; Yu, M. L.; Li, J. D.; Tai, G. A. et al. Two-dimensional boron crystals: Structural stability, tunable properties, fabrications and applications. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2017, 27, 1603300.
Mannix, A. J.; Zhang, Z. H.; Guisinger, N. P.; Yakobson, B. I.; Hersam, M. C. Borophene as a prototype for synthetic 2D materials development. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2018, 13, 444–450.
Tai, G. A.; Hu, T. S.; Zhou, Y. G.; Wang, X. F.; Kong, J. Z.; Zeng, T.; You, Y. C.; Wang, Q. Synthesis of atomically thin boron films on copper foils. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 15473–15477.
Mannix, A. J.; Zhou, X. F.; Kiraly, B.; Wood, J. D.; Alducin, D.; Myers, B. D.; Liu, X. L.; Fisher, B. L.; Santiago, U.; Guest, J. R. et al. Synthesis of borophenes: Anisotropic, two-dimensional boron polymorphs. Science 2015, 350, 1513–1516.
Feng, B. J.; Zhang, J.; Zhong, Q.; Li, W. B.; Li, S.; Li, H.; Cheng, P.; Meng, S.; Chen, L.; Wu, K. H. Experimental realization of two-dimensional boron sheets. Nat. Chem. 2016, 8, 563–568.
Liu, L. R.; Zhang, Z. H.; Liu, X. L.; Xuan, X. Y.; Yakobson, B. I.; Hersam, M. C.; Guo, W. L. Borophene concentric superlattices via self-assembly of twin boundaries. Nano Lett. 2020, 20, 1315–1321.
Xie, S. Y.; Wang, Y. L.; Li, X. B. Flat boron: A new cousin of graphene. Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1900392.
Zhang, Z. H.; Penev, E. S.; Yakobson, B. I. Polyphony in B flat. Nat. Chem. 2016, 8, 525–527.
Penev, E. S.; Kutana, A.; Yakobson, B. I. Can two-dimensional boron superconduct? Nano Lett. 2016, 16, 2522–2526.
Hou, C.; Tai, G. A.; Wu, Z. H.; Hao, J. Q. Borophene: Current status, challenges and opportunities. ChemPlusChem 2020, 85, 2186–2196.
Li, W. B.; Kong, L. J.; Chen, C. Y.; Gou, J.; Sheng, S. X.; Zhang, W. F.; Li, H.; Chen, L.; Cheng, P.; Wu, K. H. Experimental realization of honeycomb borophene. Sci. Bull. 2018, 63, 282–286.
Wu, R. T.; Drozdov, I. K.; Eltinge, S.; Zahl, P.; Ismail-Beigi, S.; Božović, I.; Gozar, A. Large-area single-crystal sheets of borophene on Cu(111) surfaces. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2019, 14, 44–49.
Kiraly, B.; Liu, X. L.; Wang, L. Q.; Zhang, Z. H.; Mannix, A. J.; Fisher, B. L.; Yakobson, B. I.; Hersam, M. C.; Guisinger, N. P. Borophene synthesis on Au(111). ACS Nano 2019, 13, 3816–3822.
Wu, Z. H.; Tai, G. A.; Shao, W.; Wang, R.; Hou, C. Experimental realization of quasicubic boron sheets. Nanoscale 2020, 12, 3787–3794.
Wu, Z. H.; Tai, G. A.; Liu, R. S.; Hou, C.; Shao, W.; Liang, X. C.; Wu, Z. T. Van der Waals epitaxial growth of borophene on a mica substrate toward a high-performance photodetector. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 31808–31815.
Hou, C.; Tai, G. A.; Hao, J. Q.; Sheng, L. H.; Liu, B.; Wu, Z. T. Ultrastable crystalline semiconducting hydrogenated borophene. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 10819–10825.
Zhang, J. J.; Altalhi, T.; Yang, J. H.; Yakobson, B. I. Semiconducting α′-boron sheet with high mobility and low all-boron contact resistance: A first-principles study. Nanoscale 2021, 13, 8474–8480.
Hou, C.; Tai, G. A.; Liu, B.; Wu, Z. H.; Yin, Y. H. Borophene-graphene heterostructure: Preparation and ultrasensitive humidity sensing. Nano Res. 2021, 14, 2337–2344.
Hou, C.; Tai, G. A.; Liu, Y.; Wu, Z. T.; Wu, Z. H.; Liang, X. C. Ultrasensitive humidity sensing and the multifunctional applications of borophene-MoS2 heterostructures. J. Mater. Chem. A 2021, 9, 13100–13108.
Huang, C. S.; Murat, A.; Babar, V.; Montes, E. Schwingenschlögl, U. Adsorption of the gas molecules NH3, NO, NO2, and CO on borophene. J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 14665–14670.
Shukla, V.; Wärnå, J.; Jena, N. K.; Grigoriev, A.; Ahuja, R. Toward the realization of 2D borophene based gas sensor. J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121, 26869–26876.
Kumar, R.; Al-Dossary, O.; Kumar, G.; Umar, A. Zinc oxide nanostructures for NO2 gas-sensor applications: A review. Nano-Micro Lett. 2015, 7, 97–120.
Liu, H. W.; Hu, K.; Yan, D. F.; Chen, R.; Zou, Y. Q.; Liu, H. B.; Wang, S. Y. Recent advances on black phosphorus for energy storage, catalysis, and sensor applications. Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1800295.
Zhang, J.; Liu, X. H.; Neri, G.; Pinna, N. Nanostructured materials for room-temperature gas sensors. Adv. Mater. 2016, 28, 795–831.
Kong, J.; Franklin, N. R.; Zhou, C. W.; Chapline, M. G.; Peng, S.; Cho, K.; Dai, H. J. Nanotube molecular wires as chemical sensors. Science 2000, 287, 622–625.
Chatterjee, S. G.; Chatterjee, S.; Ray, A. K.; Chakraborty, A. K. Graphene-metal oxide nanohybrids for toxic gas sensor: A review. Sens. Actuators B:Chem. 2015, 221, 1170–1181.
Li, H.; Yin, Z. Y.; He, Q. Y.; Li, H.; Huang, X.; Lu, G.; Fam, D. W. H.; Tok, A. I. Y.; Zhang, Q.; Zhang, H. Fabrication of single- and multilayer MoS2 film-based field-effect transistors for sensing NO at room temperature. Small 2012, 8, 63–67.
Xie, X. Z.; Semanjski, I.; Gautama, S.; Tsiligianni, E.; Deligiannis, N.; Rajan, R. T.; Pasveer, F.; Philips, W. A review of urban air pollution monitoring and exposure assessment methods. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2017, 6, 389.
Trasviña-Moreno, C. A.; Blasco, R.; Marco, Á.; Casas, R. Trasviña-Castro, A. Unmanned aerial vehicle based wireless sensor network for marine-coastal environment monitoring. Sensors 2017, 17, 460.
Asher, E.; Hills, A. J.; Hornbrook, R. S.; Shertz, S.; Gabbard, S.; Stephens, B. B.; Helmig, D.; Apel, E. C. Unpiloted aircraft system instrument for the rapid collection of whole air samples and measurements for environmental monitoring and air quality studies. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021, 55, 5657–5667.
Schedin, F.; Geim, A. K.; Morozov, S. V.; Hill, E. W.; Blake, P.; Katsnelson, M. I.; Novoselov, K. S. Detection of individual gas molecules adsorbed on graphene. Nat. Mater. 2007, 6, 652–655.
Kim, S. J.; Koh, H. J.; Ren, C. E.; Kwon, O.; Maleski, K.; Cho, S. Y.; Anasori, B.; Kim, C. K.; Choi, Y. K.; Kim, J. et al. Metallic Ti3C2Tx MXene gas sensors with ultrahigh signal-to-noise ratio. ACS Nano 2018, 12, 986–993.
Lee, K.; Gatensby, R.; McEvoy, N.; Hallam, T.; Duesberg, G. S. High-performance sensors based on molybdenum disulfide thin films. Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 6699–6702.
Cui, S. M.; Pu, H. H.; Wells, S. A.; Wen, Z. H.; Mao, S.; Chang, J. B.; Hersam, M. C.; Chen, J. H. Ultrahigh sensitivity and layer-dependent sensing performance of phosphorene-based gas sensors. Nat. Commun. 2015, 6, 8632.
Abbas, A. N.; Liu, B. L.; Chen, L.; Ma, Y. Q.; Cong, S.; Aroonyadet, N.; Köpf, M.; Nilges, T.; Zhou, C. W. Black phosphorus gas sensors. ACS Nano 2015, 9, 5618–5624.
Zhang, D. Z.; Wu, Z. L.; Zong, X. Q. Flexible and highly sensitive H2S gas sensor based on in-situ polymerized SnO2/rGO/PANI ternary nanocomposite with application in halitosis diagnosis. Sens. Actuators B:Chem. 2019, 289, 32–41.
Liu, X. H.; Ma, T. T.; Pinna, N.; Zhang, J. Two-dimensional nanostructured materials for gas sensing. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2017, 27, 1702168.
Wu, D.; Zhao, Z. H.; Lu, W.; Rogée, L.; Zeng, L. H.; Lin, P.; Shi, Z. F.; Tian, Y. T.; Li, X. J.; Tsang, Y. H. Highly sensitive solar-blind deep ultraviolet photodetector based on graphene/PtSe2/β-Ga2O3 2D/3D Schottky junction with ultrafast speed. Nano Res. 2021, 14, 1973–1979.
Song, W. D.; Chen, J. X.; Li, Z. L.; Fang, X. S. Self-powered MXene/GaN van der Waals heterojunction ultraviolet photodiodes with superhigh efficiency and stable current outputs. Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2101059.
Kuang, Q.; Lao, C. S.; Wang, Z. L.; Xie, Z. X.; Zheng, L. S. High-sensitivity humidity sensor based on a single SnO2 nanowire. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 6070–6071.
Meng, Z.; Stolz, R. M.; Mendecki, L.; Mirica, K. A. Electrically-transduced chemical sensors based on two-dimensional nanomaterials. Chem. Rev. 2019, 119, 478–598.
Li, J.; Lu, Y. J.; Ye, Q.; Cinke, M.; Han, J.; Meyyappan, M. Carbon nanotube sensors for gas and organic vapor detection. Nano Lett. 2003, 3, 929–933.
Chung, M. G.; Kim, D. H.; Lee, H. M.; Kim, T.; Choi, J. H.; Seo, D. K.; Yoo, J. B.; Hong, S. H.; Kang, T. J.; Kim, Y. H. Highly sensitive NO2 gas sensor based on ozone treated graphene. Sens. Actuators. B:Chem. 2012, 166–167, 172–176.
Cho, S. Y.; Lee, Y.; Koh, H. J.; Jung, H.; Kim, J. S.; Yoo, H. W.; Kim, J.; Jung, H. T. Superior chemical sensing performance of black phosphorus: Comparison with MoS2 and graphene. Adv. Mater. 2016, 28, 7020–7028.
Cui, H. P.; Zheng, K.; Xie, Z. J.; Yu, J. B.; Zhu, X. Y.; Ren, H.; Wang, Z. P.; Zhang, F.; Li, X. D.; Tao, L. Q. et al. Tellurene nanoflake-based NO2 sensors with superior sensitivity and a sub-parts-per-billion detection limit. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 47704–47713.
Liu, B. L.; Chen, L.; Liu, G.; Abbas, A. N.; Fathi, M.; Zhou, C. W. High-performance chemical sensing using Schottky-contacted chemical vapor deposition grown monolayer MoS2 transistors. ACS Nano 2014, 8, 5304–5314.
Wu, E. X.; Xie, Y.; Yuan, B.; Zhang, H.; Hu, X. D.; Liu, J.; Zhang, D. H. Ultrasensitive and fully reversible NO2 gas sensing based on p-type MoTe2 under ultraviolet illumination. ACS Sens. 2018, 3, 1719–1726.
Fowler, J. D.; Allen, M. J.; Tung, V. C.; Yang, Y.; Kaner, R. B.; Weiller, B. H. Practical chemical sensors from chemically derived graphene. ACS Nano 2009, 3, 301–306.
Late, D. J.; Huang, Y. K.; Liu, B.; Acharya, J.; Shirodkar, S. N.; Luo, J. J.; Yan, A. M.; Charles, D.; Waghmare, U. V.; Dravid, V. P. et al. Sensing behavior of atomically thin-layered MoS2 transistors. ACS Nano 2013, 7, 4879–4891.
Long, H.; Harley-Trochimczyk, A.; Pham, T.; Tang, Z. R.; Shi, T. L.; Zettl, A.; Carraro, C.; Worsley, M. A.; Maboudian, R. High surface area MoS2/graphene hybrid aerogel for ultrasensitive NO2 detection. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016, 26, 5158–5165.
Cho, B.; Yoon, J.; Hahm, M. G.; Kim, D. H.; Kim, A. R.; Kahng, Y. H.; Park, S. W.; Lee, Y. J.; Park, S. G.; Kwon, J. D. et al. Graphene-based gas sensor: Metal decoration effect and application to a flexible device. J. Mater. Chem. C 2014, 2, 5280–5285.
Yuan, W. J.; Liu, A. R.; Huang, L.; Li, C.; Shi, G. Q. High-performance NO2 sensors based on chemically modified graphene. Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 766–771.
Ren, H.; Zhou, Y.; Wang, Y. J.; Zhu, X. Y.; Gao, C.; Guo, Y. C. Improving room-temperature trace NO2 sensing of black phosphorus nanosheets by incorporating benzyl viologen. Sens. Actuators B:Chem. 2020, 321, 128520.
Pham, T.; Li, G. H.; Bekyarova, E.; Itkis, M. E.; Mulchandani, A. MoS2-based optoelectronic gas sensor with sub-parts-per-billion limit of NO2 gas detection. ACS Nano 2019, 13, 3196–3205.
Guo, S. Q.; Yang, D.; Zhang, S.; Dong, Q.; Li, B. C.; Tran, N.; Li, Z. Y.; Xiong, Y. J.; Zaghloul, M. E. Development of a cloud-based epidermal MoSe2 device for hazardous gas sensing. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 29, 1900138.
Ou, J. Z.; Ge, W. Y.; Carey, B.; Daeneke, T.; Rotbart, A.; Shan, W.; Wang, Y. C.; Fu, Z. Q.; Chrimes, A. F.; Wlodarski, W. et al. Physisorption-based charge transfer in two-dimensional SnS2 for selective and reversible NO2 gas sensing. ACS Nano 2015, 9, 10313–10323.
Xin, X.; Zhang, Y.; Guan, X. X.; Cao, J. X.; Li, W. L.; Long, X.; Tan, X. Enhanced performances of PbS quantum-dots-modified MoS2 composite for NO2 detection at room temperature. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 9438–9447.
Liang, J. R.; Lou, Q.; Wu, W. H.; Wang, K. Q.; Xuan, C. NO2 gas sensing performance of a VO2(B) ultrathin vertical nanosheet array: Experimental and DFT investigation. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021, 13, 31968–31977.
Zhang, Y. J.; Jiang, Y. D.; Duan, Z. H.; Huang, Q.; Wu, Y. W.; Liu, B. H.; Zhao, Q. N.; Wang, S.; Yuan, Z.; Tai, H. L. Highly sensitive and selective NO2 sensor of alkalized V2CTx MXene driven by interlayer swelling. Sens. Actuators B:Chem. 2021, 344, 130150.
Wan, P. B.; Wen, X. M.; Sun, C. Z.; Chandran, B. K.; Zhang, H.; Sun, X. M.; Chen, X. D. Flexible transparent films based on nanocomposite networks of polyaniline and carbon nanotubes for high-performance gas sensing. Small 2015, 11, 5409–5415.
Yang, S.; Liu, Y. L.; Chen, W.; Jin, W.; Zhou, J.; Zhang, H.; Zakharova, G. S. High sensitivity and good selectivity of ultralong MoO3 nanobelts for trimethylamine gas. Sens. Actuators B:Chem. 2016, 226, 478–485.
Tyagi, D.; Wang, H. D.; Huang, W. C.; Hu, L. P.; Tang, Y. F.; Guo, Z. N.; Ouyang, Z. B.; Zhang, H. Recent advances in two-dimensional-material-based sensing technology toward health and environmental monitoring applications. Nanoscale 2020, 12, 3535–3559.
京公网安备11010802044758号