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Vol. 14 (2022)

Self-Assembly 3D Porous Crumpled MXene Spheres as Efficient Gas and Pressure Sensing Material for Transient All-MXene Sensors

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-022-00796-7
Zijie Yang
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Siyuan Lv
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Yueying Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Jing Wang
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, People’s Republic of China
Li Jiang
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Xiaoteng Jia
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Chenguang Wang
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Xu Yan
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Peng Sun
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Yu Duan
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Fangmeng Liu
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
Geyu Lu
State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Fangmeng Liu

liufangmeng@jlu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 14 (2022), Article Number: 56

Abstract

Environmentally friendly degradable sensors with both hazardous gases and pressure efficient sensing capabilities are highly desired for various promising applications, including environmental pollution monitoring/prevention, wisdom medical, wearable smart devices, and artificial intelligence. However, the transient gas and pressure sensors based on only identical sensing material that concurrently meets the above detection needs have not been reported. Here, we present transient all-MXene NO2 and pressure sensors employing three-dimensional porous crumpled MXene spheres prepared by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis technology as the sensing layer, accompanied with water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol substrates embedded with patterned MXene electrodes. The gas sensor achieves a ppb-level of highly selective NO2 sensing, with a response of up to 12.11% at 5 ppm NO2 and a detection range of 50 ppb–5 ppm, while the pressure sensor has an extremely wide linear pressure detection range of 0.14–22.22 kPa and fast response time of 34 ms. In parallel, all-MXene NO2 and pressure sensors can be rapidly degraded in medical H2O2 within 6 h. This work provides a new avenue toward environmental monitoring, human physiological signal monitoring, and recyclable transient electronics.


Highlights:


1 3D porous crumpled MXene spheres were synthesized by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis technology.
2 All-MXene transient sensors utilizing porous crumpled MXene sphere as sensing material and MXene films as electrodes were developed, which achieved excellent gas/pressure sensing performance.
3 Both gas and pressure sensors can achieve rapid and controllable degradation in medical-grade H2O2 (2%) within 6 h.

Keywords

All-MXene 3D porous crumpled MXene sphere Transient NO2 and pressure sensor
Yang, Zijie, Siyuan Lv, Yueying Zhang, Jing Wang, Li Jiang, Xiaoteng Jia, Chenguang Wang, Xu Yan, Peng Sun, Yu Duan, Fangmeng Liu, and Geyu Lu. 2022. “Self-Assembly 3D Porous Crumpled MXene Spheres As Efficient Gas and Pressure Sensing Material for Transient All-MXene Sensors”. Nano-Micro Letters 14 (February):56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-022-00796-7.
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