Caracterização de estruturas de óxido de estanho modificado como sensores de gases

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Martin Schwellberger [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124470
• topic: Nanotecnologia; Catalise; Gases - Absorção e adsorção; Nanopartículas; Detectores; Nanoparticles

Gas Sensors are technology based on materials that have a measurable physical propriety that changes in the presence of a specific gas. The search for materials that will allow the design of efficient gas sensors, and allow the understanding of those interactions were the main motivation behind this study. The project consisted in the functionalization of the surface of tin monoxide based materials with noble metals nanoparticles (Pt, Pd and Ag) and study the effect caused by this kind of surface modification. The tin monoxide materials were synthetized by carbothermal reduction, in inert atmosphere conditions. The surface modification was achieved by a wet chemical rout, by adding metallic nanoparticles dispersions to the oxides and submitting the mixture to a thermal treatment. The metallic nanoparticles dispersions were synthetized by the poliol reduction process, through chemical reduction reactions using the correspondents' salts, ethylene glycol and PVP as precursors. SEM and TEM analysis of the modified structures indicate that the nanoparticles were deposited over the oxides surface, with good dispersion. Electrical characterization on both pure and modified structures in synthetic air and in the presence of multiple gases (NO2, H2 and CO) allowed the characterization of the samples as gas sensors. There were differences in the electrical characteristics of the different samples and their sensitivities were altered by the surface modification, indicating that the nanoparticles were acting as catalysts in the interaction of the oxide with reducing gases (H2 and CO) and as deactivators in the interaction with NO2, suggesting that chemical and electrical sensitization are happening. Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy was used to further investigate those processes, so that a model for the effects caused by the modifiers could be proposed.