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Aerosol-Assisted CVD-Grown WO<sub>3</sub> Nanoneedles Decorated with Copper Oxide Nanoparticles for the Selective and Humidity-Resilient Detection of H<sub>2</sub>S
A gas-sensitive
hybrid material consisting of Cu<sub>2</sub>O nanoparticle-decorated
WO<sub>3</sub> nanoneedles is successfully grown for the first time
in a single step via aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition. Morphological,
structural, and composition analyses show that our method is effective
for growing single-crystalline, n-type WO<sub>3</sub> nanoneedles
decorated with p-type Cu<sub>2</sub>O nanoparticles at moderate temperatures
(i.e., 380 °C), with cost effectiveness and short fabrication
times, directly onto microhot plate transducer arrays with the view
of obtaining gas sensors. The gas-sensing studies performed show that
this hybrid nanomaterial has excellent sensitivity and selectivity
to hydrogen sulfide (7-fold increase in response compared with that
of pristine WO<sub>3</sub> nanoneedles) and a low detection limit
(below 300 ppb of H<sub>2</sub>S), together with unprecedented fast
response times (2 s) and high immunity to changes in the background
humidity. These superior properties arise because of the multiple
p–n heterojunctions created at the nanoscale in our hybrid
nanomaterial