Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Hydrogen Using Pd-Coated SnO2 Nanorod Arrays for Breath-Analyzer Applications

Hwaebong Jung; Junho Hwang; Yong Sahm Choe; Hyun Sook Lee; Wooyoung Lee

doi:10.3390/s22052056

Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Hydrogen Using Pd-Coated SnO₂ Nanorod Arrays for Breath-Analyzer Applications

Hwaebong Jung, Junho Hwang, Yong Sahm Choe, Hyun Sook Lee, Wooyoung Lee

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Abstract

We report a breath hydrogen analyzer based on Pd-coated SnO₂ nanorods (Pd-SnO₂ NRs) sensor integrated into a miniaturized gas chromatography (GC) column. The device can measure a wide range of hydrogen (1–100 ppm), within 100 s, using a small volume of human breath (1 mL) without pre-concentration. Especially, the mini-GC integrated with Pd-SnO₂ NRs can detect 1 ppm of H₂, as a lower detection limit, at a low operating temperature of 152^◦C. Furthermore, when the breath hydrogen analyzer was exposed to a mixture of interfering gases, such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane, and acetone, it was found to be capable of selectively detecting only H₂. We found that the Pd-SnO₂ NRs were superior to other semiconducting metal oxides that lack selectivity in H₂ detection. Our study reveals that the Pd-SnO₂ NRs integrated into the mini-GC device can be utilized in breath hydrogen analyzers to rapidly and accurately detect hydrogen due to its high selectivity and sensitivity.

Original language	English
Article number	2056
Journal	Sensors
Volume	22
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/s22052056
Publication status	Published - 2022 Mar 1

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Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Technology Innovation Program (‘20013621’, Center for Super Critical Material Industrial Technology) funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea), the Basic Science Research Program (2017M3A9F1052297), and the Priority Research Centers Program (2019R1A6A1A11055660) through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Korean Government (Ministry of Science and ICT). H.-S. Lee gratefully acknowledges the support from the Basic Research in Science and Engineering Program of the NRF (2021R1A2C1013690).

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Analytical Chemistry
Information Systems
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Biochemistry
Instrumentation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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