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Enhancing room-temperature NO 2 gas sensing performance based on a metal phthalocyanine/graphene quantum dot hybrid material.

Wenkai JiangXinwei ChenTao WangBolong LiMin ZengJianhua YangNantao HuYanjie SuZhihua ZhouZhi Yang
Published in: RSC advances (2021)
Metal phthalocyanine (MPc) has a great saturation response value, but its low conductivity and slow response speed limit its practical application. A novel hybrid material composed of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and metal phthalocyanine derivatives has been obtained. GQDs can be anchored onto the surface of MPc nanofibers through π-π stacking. The response to NO 2 can be significantly enhanced under certain component proportion matching, which is much better than their respective response to NO 2 . The introduction of GQDs greatly increases the conductivity of phthalocyanine fibers, leading to a faster response of the hybrid material. In addition, the reproducibility, selectivity and stability of the hybrid materials are excellent, and the minimum response concentration can reach 50 ppb. Ultra-low-power laser irradiation was used to solve the problem of slow recovery of metal phthalocyanine. Overall, we present the advantages of combining MPc nanofibers with GQDs and pave a new avenue for the application of MPc-GQD hybrids in the gas sensing field.
Keyphrases
  • room temperature
  • photodynamic therapy
  • quantum dots
  • high resolution
  • sensitive detection
  • carbon nanotubes