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Rare Metals
Published in: Rare Metals 6/2021

20-01-2021 | Original Article

Synthesis of hollow spherical nickel oxide and its gas-sensing properties

Authors: Wang-Chang Geng, Xin-Rou Cao, Shi-Lu Xu, Jiang-Hua Yang, Natasha Babar, Zi-Jun He, Qiu-Yu Zhang

Published in: Rare Metals | Issue 6/2021

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Abstract

Semiconductor metal oxides have attracted wide attention in the area of gas sensor due to that they have unique advantages in the rapid and accurate detection of harmful gases. A simple strategy is to synthesize porous NiO hollow microspheres via a simple hydrothermal method with trisodium citrate as structure guide agent is presented in this paper, and the shell of the microsphere is composed of porous and lamellar assembly units. The cavity proportion can be adjusted by changing the amount of trisodium citrate. A reasonable mechanism was proposed to explain the formation of porous NiO hollow microspheres. As a gas-sensing material, porous NiO hollow microspheres show excellent gas selectivity and rapid response recovery time for n-butyl alcohol gas. When the content of trisodium citrate was 0.10 g, the synthesized hollow sphere NiO had the highest response value (25.6) to 100 × 10–6 of n-butyl alcohol at 300 °C and the response and recovery times were only 68 and 10 s.

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Metadata
Title
Synthesis of hollow spherical nickel oxide and its gas-sensing properties
Authors
Wang-Chang Geng
Xin-Rou Cao
Shi-Lu Xu
Jiang-Hua Yang
Natasha Babar
Zi-Jun He
Qiu-Yu Zhang
Publication date
20-01-2021
Publisher
Nonferrous Metals Society of China
Published in
Rare Metals / Issue 6/2021
Print ISSN: 1001-0521
Electronic ISSN: 1867-7185
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-020-01639-3

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