Construction of 2D TiO<sub>2</sub>@MoS<sub>2</sub> Heterojunction Nanosheets for Efficient Toluene Gas Detection

Monitoring trace toluene exposure is critical for early-stage lung cancer screening via breath analysis, yet conventional chemiresistive sensors face fundamental limitations, including compromised selectivity in complex VOC matrices and humidity-induced signal drift, with prevailing p–n heterojuncti...

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出版年:Chemosensors
主要な著者: Dehui Wang, Jinwu Hu, Hui Xu, Ding Wang, Guisheng Li
フォーマット: 論文
言語:英語
出版事項: MDPI AG 2025-04-01
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オンライン・アクセス:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/13/5/154
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要約:Monitoring trace toluene exposure is critical for early-stage lung cancer screening via breath analysis, yet conventional chemiresistive sensors face fundamental limitations, including compromised selectivity in complex VOC matrices and humidity-induced signal drift, with prevailing p–n heterojunction architectures suffering from inherent charge recombination and environmental instability. Herein, we pioneer a 2D core–shell n–n heterojunction strategy through rational design of TiO<sub>2</sub>@MoS<sub>2</sub> heterostructures, where vertically aligned MoS<sub>2</sub> nanosheets are epitaxially grown on 2D TiO<sub>2</sub> derived from graphene-templated synthesis, creating built-in electric fields at the heterojunction interface that dramatically enhance charge carrier separation efficiency. At 240 °C, the TiO<sub>2</sub>@MoS<sub>2</sub> sensor exhibits a superior response (R<sub>a</sub>/R<sub>g</sub> = 9.8 to 10 ppm toluene), outperforming MoS<sub>2</sub> (R<sub>a</sub>/R<sub>g</sub> = 2.8). Additionally, the sensor demonstrates rapid response/recovery kinetics (9 s/16 s), a low detection limit (50 ppb), and excellent selectivity against interfering gases and moisture. The enhanced performance is attributed to unidirectional electron transfer (TiO<sub>2</sub> → MoS<sub>2</sub>) without hole recombination losses, methyl-specific adsorption through TiO<sub>2</sub> oxygen vacancy alignment, and steric exclusion of non-target VOCs via size-selective MoS<sub>2</sub> interlayers. This work establishes a transformative paradigm in gas sensor design by leveraging n–n heterojunction physics and 2D core–shell synergy, overcoming long-standing limitations of conventional architectures.
ISSN:2227-9040