| Literature DB >> 36196111 |
Wei-Hua Deng1,2, Ming-Shui Yao1,3, Min-Yi Zhang1,2, Masahiko Tsujimoto3, Kenichi Otake3, Bo Wang4, Chun-Sen Li1,2, Gang Xu1,2,5, Susumu Kitagawa3.
Abstract
To create an artificial structure to remarkably surpass the sensitivity, selectivity and speed of the olfaction system of animals is still a daunting challenge. Herein, we propose a core-sheath pillar (CSP) architecture with a perfect synergistic interface that effectively integrates the advantages of metal-organic frameworks and metal oxides to tackle the above-mentioned challenge. The sheath material, NH2-MIL-125, can concentrate target analyte, nitro-explosives, by 1012 times from its vapour. The perfect band-matched synergistic interface enables the TiO2 core to effectively harvest and utilize visible light. At room temperature and under visible light, CSP (TiO2, NH2-MIL-125) shows an unexpected self-promoting analyte-sensing behaviour. Its experimentally reached limit of detection (∼0.8 ppq, hexogeon) is 103 times lower than the lowest one achieved by a sniffer dog or all sensing techniques without analyte pre-concentration. Moreover, the sensor exhibits excellent selectivity against commonly existing interferences, with a short response time of 0.14 min.Entities:
Keywords: MOFs; electrical devices; gas sensors; metal oxides; thin films
Year: 2022 PMID: 36196111 PMCID: PMC9522384 DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwac143
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Natl Sci Rev ISSN: 2053-714X Impact factor: 23.178
Figure 1.Design of the CSP architecture and the specific interaction. (a) Design of visible-light-activated CSP (TiO2, NH2-MIL-125) chemiresistive material for nitro-explosive detection at RT. (b) Schematic of the structure of NH2-MIL-125 and the specific interaction of its organic ligand with nitro-explosives (golden ball: the cavity of NH2-MIL-125).
Figure 2.Structural characterizations of the CSP architecture. (a) Perspective view of NH2-MIL-125; the gray balls indicate the centres of the octahedral and tetrahedral vacancies in NH2-MIL-125. (b) PXRD patterns of TiO2, NH2-MIL-125 and CSP (TiO2, NH2-MIL-125); (c) DRS spectra of TiO2, NH2-MIL-125 and CSP (TiO2, NH2-MIL-125). SEM and TEM images of (d and g) vertically aligned TiO2 pillars, (e and h) TiO2 pillars after two-step seeding, and (f, i–k) CSP (TiO2, NH2-MIL-125) (insets in (d–f) are schematics of the growth of CSP; insets in (i) are N, O and Ti EDX mapping images of the side view of a CSP).
Figure 3.Sensing properties of CSP (TiO2, NH2-MIL-125) toward RDX under visible light and at RT. (a) Dynamic response–recovery curve for RDX at different expected concentrations under visible light (the distance between RDX and the sensor: 20 cm); (b) static and dynamic response–recovery curves for different distances from 1.4 g of RDX (vapour pre-concentrated at RT); (c) normalized response–recovery curve to 15.7 ppm of RDX vapour (expected concentration); (d) dynamic response–recovery curve with different masses (vapour pre-concentrated at 150oC); (e) log–log plots of response–concentration with experimental LOD values (the inset is the response toward 0.8 ppq RDX vapour pre-concentrated at 253K); (f) response comparisons of different gas-sensing materials toward saturated RDX vapours at RT [11–14,28,37,38]; (g) response comparisons among nitro-explosives and interference vapours.
Figure 4.Sensing mechanisms of CSP (TiO2, NH2-MIL-125) toward RDX under visible light and at RT. (a) Photocurrent of CSP (TiO2, NH2-MIL-125), NH2-MIL-125 and TiO2 under visible light; (b) absorption of NH2-MIL-125 after exposure to RDX vapour; (c) structures of TiO2, NH2-MIL-125 and their interface exposed to RDX vapour (the orange molecules) and (d) energy-level diagram of ligand, metal node and RDX@ligand relative to TiO2, and frontier molecular orbitals of ligand, metal node and RDX@ligand showing thermodynamically favoured charge-carrier separations and transfer, as well as self-promoting analyte-sensing behaviour.