Synthesis and Gas Sensing Properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides materials (TMDs)

Identifier:  TDX:3944

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3944

Authors:  Alagh, Aanchal

Abstract:
In the industrial monitoring process, car emission control, indoor and outdoor air quality safety, and environmental protection, continuous and reliable detection of various gases is critical. Semiconducting metal oxides, the most extensively used materials in gas sensing applications, have substantial limitations such as high power consumption, poor long-term stability, limited selectivity, and, most notably, high humidity cross-sensitivity. Novel materials that allow for low-temperature operation might solve power-related issues, resulting in better and more reliable sensor networks. As a result, 2D materials like transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as viable options for gas sensing. These next-generation materials have the potential to improve gas-sensitive materials' sensing properties such as sensitivity, selectivity, stability, and speed (response-recovery time).This is owing to their inherent unique properties, which include nanoscale thickness, large specific surface area, abundant active edge sites, and high sensitivity to gas molecules at lower temperatures and even at room temperature. The current thesis attempts to scale up the fabrication of these next-generation 2D layered materials and utilise them for gas sensing applications in this field of study. Furthermore, the gas sensing materials investigated in this thesis have the potential to address the aforementioned either in their pristine form or after some functionalization. In this regard, this thesis proposes chemoresistive gas sensors based on several TMDs materials.