Abstract
Ambient humidity monitoring is of outmost importance in many technological fields. For this reason, there is still a substantial interest in the development of new simple humidity sensors with high performances. Here it is presented a study to the development of a sensitive, selective and reliable conductometric humidity sensor based on two-dimensional (2D) WS2 nanosheets. The 2D nanomaterial was synthesized by exfoliation of a bulk WS2 with tert–butyllithium, and then deposited onto the interdigitated electrodes of a conductometric ceramic platform. To evaluate the sensing performances, the sensor was exposed to different relative humidity (RH) levels, recording in real time the change of conductivity of the 2D-WS2 layer. The sensor exhibited high sensitivity to humidity at room temperature, showing an increase of the current of about 3 orders of magnitude as RH value was varied between 8% and 85% with fast response and recovery times of 140 s and 30 s, respectively. Field tests, carried out to measure the environmental humidity, demonstrated the good performances of the developed sensor as a highly sensitive and reliable relative humidity probe for environmental applications.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 21-26 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | FlatChem |
Volume | 9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 May |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Z.S. was supported by Czech Science Foundation (GACR No. 17-11456S). This work was supported by the project Advanced Functional Nanorobots (reg. No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000444 financed by the EFRR).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Ceramics and Composites
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films
- Materials Chemistry