Trimodally porous SnO2 nanospheres with threedimensional interconnectivity and size tunability: A one-pot synthetic route and potential application as an extremely sensitive ethanol detector

Ji Wook Yoon; Seung Ho Choi; Jun Sik Kim; Ho Won Jang; Yun Chan Kang; Jong Heun Lee

doi:10.1038/am.2016.16

Trimodally porous SnO₂ nanospheres with threedimensional interconnectivity and size tunability: A one-pot synthetic route and potential application as an extremely sensitive ethanol detector

Ji Wook Yoon
, Seung Ho Choi
, Jun Sik Kim
, Ho Won Jang
, Yun Chan Kang^*
, Jong Heun Lee

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The rapid and effective transfer of chemical reactants to solid surfaces through porous structures is essential for enhancing the performance of nanomaterials for various energy and environmental applications. In this paper, we report a facile one-pot spray pyrolysis method for preparing highly reactant-accessible and porous SnO₂ spheres, which have three-dimensionally interconnected and size-tunable trimodal (microscale, mesoscale and macroscale) pores. For this synthetic method, macroscale polystyrene spheres and mesoscale-diameter, long carbon nanotubes were used as sacrificial templates. The promising potential of the SnO₂ spheres with trimodal pores (sizes ∼3, 20 and 100 nm) was demonstrated by the unprecedentedly high response to several p.p.b. levels of ethanol. Such an ultrahigh response to ethanol is explained with respect to the hierarchical porosity and pore-size-dependent gas diffusion mechanism.

Original language	English
Article number	e244
Journal	NPG Asia Materials
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/am.2016.16
Publication status	Published - 2016 Mar 25

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by a grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), which was funded by the Korean government (Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST), Grant No. 2013R1A2A1A01006545)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Modelling and Simulation
General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics

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