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Glucose-mediated hydrothermal synthesis and gas sensing characteristics of WO3 hollow microspheres
Choong-Yong Lee, Sun-Jung Kim, In-Sung Hwang, Jong-Heun Lee*
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Anam-Dong, Sungbuk-Gu, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea
Article history:
Received 21 May 2009
Received in revised form 29 July 2009
Accepted 18 August 2009
Available online 21 August 2009
Keywords:
WO3
NO, sensor
Hollow microspheres
Carbon template
Tungsten-coated carbon microspheres were prepared by one-pot hydrothermal reaction of an aqueous solution containing glucose and sodium tungstate The spheres were converted into WO3 hollow micro- spheres by the decomposition of their core carbon The [glucose]/[sodium tungstate] ratio of the stock solution determined not only the morphology of the precursors but also the phase of the powders after calcination The WO3 hollow microspheres showed a higher gas response and more selective detec- tion of 0.5-2.5 ppm NO; than WO; solid and nano-porous microspheres did The enhanced NO; sensing characteristics are explained in relation to the surface area, pore volume, and hollow morphology
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1 Introduction
Oxide semiconductor nanostructures with hollow morphology
have a variety of functional applications such as photocatalysts,
energy storage, piezoelectric materials, and gas sensors [1-3] In
particular, when the shells of hollow spheres are thin and nano-
porous, the gas can diffuse toward the entire sensing surface, which
enhances the gas sensing behaviors [4] In contrast, when the pri-
mary particles are agglomerated into dense and large secondary
particles, the gas sensing reaction involving the resistance change
occurs only on the outer part of the agglomerates, which decreases
the gas responses
The chemical routes used to prepare oxide hollow structures
are divided into two groups according to the use of templates The
representative approaches to prepare hollow structures without
template are the hydrothermal self-assembly reaction [5], ultra-
sonic spray pyrolysis [6], Ostwald ripening of porous secondary
particles [7], and outward oxidation of metal spheres by Kirkendall
effect [8] Although one-step reaction is simple and convenient,
the precise control of wall thickness and/or hollow morphology
remains a challenging issue By contrast, the thinness and porosity
of the wall and the size of the hollow spheres can be manipulated by
optimizing the use of well-defined templates The chemical routes
include layer-by-layer assembly [9], heterocoagulation [10], and
controlled hydrolysis [11]
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Sun and Li [12] suggested the synthetic route to prepare monodisperse carbon microspheres with hydrophilic surface by the hydrothermal reaction of glucose and demonstrated the reactiv- ity of carbon spheres through the uniform coating of Ag Titirichi [13] prepared various metal oxide (Fe.03, NiO, Co304, MgO, CuO) hollow spheres by one-pot hydrothermal reaction of a solution con- taining metal ions and glucose and subsequent decomposition of core carbon In addition, the hollow structures of SnO» and ZnO [14,15] have been prepared by similar chemical routes However,
to the best of our knowledge, the preparation of WO3 hollow struc- tures using one-pot hydrothermal reaction of a solution containing the precursors of carbon templates and tungsten component has not been reported
In this contribution, WO3 hollow microspheres are prepared
by one-pot hydrothermal reaction and their gas sensing char- acteristics are investigated The study focuses on the formation mechanism of tungsten-precursor-coated carbon spheres and hol- low WO3 microspheres and the effect of particle morphology on the NO2 sensing characteristics
2 Experimental 2.1 Preparation of sample b(+)-Glucose monohydrate (CgH1;20,¢-H20, 99.5% Fluka Chemi- cal Co., Ltd.) and sodium tungstate (IV) (NazW0O4:2H20, 99% Kanto Chemical Co., Ltd.) were used as carbon precursor and source material, respectively Table 1 shows the composition of the stock solution for hydrothermal reaction Glucose (3.963 g, 0.02 mol) was
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dissolved in 20 ml of distilled water and a designated amount of
Na2W0,-:2H20 was dissolved in 20 ml of distilled water After mix-
ing the two solutions and subsequent mild stirring, the solutions
were transferred to a Teflon-lined, stainless steel autoclave (volume
100 cm?), sealed, and then heated at 200°C for 24h After cooling,
the reaction products were washed with water and ethanol and
dried at 60°C for 24h The as-prepared precursors were converted
into WO3 by the decomposition of core carbon via heat treatment
(HT) at 450°C The samples were designated according to the molar
ratio between glucose and Na2W0O,:2H20 (denoted as ‘R’) in the
stock solution For example, R30 precursor and R30 powders mean
the precursors and WO3 powders prepared from the stock solution
with R=30, respectively In order to investigate the effect of HT
on the morphology of the WO3 microspheres, the heat-treatment
temperature (HTT) and duration at HTT were varied
2.2 Characterization of sample
The morphologies of the precursors and powders were analyzed
by scanning electron microscopy (SEM, Hitachi S-4300) and trans-
mission electron microscopy (TEM, FEI Tecnai 20) The crystal phase
was analyzed using X-ray diffraction (XRD, Rigaku D/MAX-2500
V/PC) The surface areas of the powders were investigated using
Brunauer—Emmett-—Teller (BET) method (Tristar 3000, Micromerit-
ics Co., Ltd.)
2.3 Gas sensing characteristics
The WO3 spherical powders after HT were prepared in a paste
form and applied to an alumina substrate having two Au electrodes
(Fig 1(a) and (b), substrate: 1.5mm x 1.5mm, spacing between
two electrodes: 0.2 mm) The sensor element was heat treated at
400 °C for 30 min to decompose the organic component of the paste
The films after HT were ~15 wm thick The sensor was installed
in a quartz tube and the furnace temperature was stabilized at a
constant sensing temperature (300°C) (Fig 1(c)) The gas concen-
tration was controlled by changing the mixing ratio of the parent
gases (5 ppm NO3:, 200 ppm C2H50H, 200 ppm CH3COCH3, 100 ppm
CO, 100 ppm C3Hg, 1000 ppm CHg, all in air balance) and dry syn-
thetic air A flow-through technique with a constant flow rate
(500 ml/min) was used The gas response (S=Ra/Rg or Rg/Ra) was
measured at 400°C by comparing the resistance of the sensor in
Table 1
Sample specification and composition of the stock solution for hydrothermal
reaction
Specification [Glucose]/[NazW0O,-2H20] Glucose Naz W0,:2H20
high-purity air (Ra) with that in the target gases (Rg) The electri- cal resistance sensor was monitored using a Picoammeter/Voltage Source (Keithley 6487) interfaced with a computer
3 Results and discussion 3.1 X-ray diffraction analysis Fig 2 shows the XRD patterns of the R30, R5, and RO.5 powders prepared by HT of precursors at 450°C for 1h The R30 powders
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powders were identified as NayW207 and Na2W0Osg, respectively
The [Na]/[W] ratio in the NagWOy, powders prepared at R=0.5 was
2, which was 2 times higher than the same ratio in the Na2W207
powders prepared at R=5 The Na content of the stock solution at
R=0.5 was 10 times higher than that at R=5 Accordingly, the high
Na2W0,4:2H20 concentration of the stock solution was thought
to have increased the Na content of the precursors and powders,
despite the removal of a large portion of Na by washing
3.2 Particle morphology
The morphology of the precursors was closely dependent on
the R values At R=0.5 and 5, irregular precipitate morphologies
were prepared (Fig 3(c) and (e)) In contrast, nearly mono-disperse,
spherical precursors with clean surface were prepared (Fig 3(a))
The morphology remained similar after HT at 450°C for 1h
(Fig 3(b), (d) and (f)) Thus, the morphology of the powders could
be designed in the stage of hydrothermal reaction The WO3 micro-
spheres after HT (R30 powders) consisted of many small primary
particles (10-20 nm) (inset in Fig 3(b)), whereas the average pri- mary particle sizes of R5 and RO.5 powders were ~400nm and
~1 pm (insets in Fig 3(d) and (f)) These results indicated that the R values determined the phase, morphology and the primary particle sizes of the powders
The scale bar of Fig 3(b) is 10 times smaller than that of Fig 3(a) The sizes of more than 300 spheres were measured using the SEM observation of well-dispersed precursors and powders The aver- age particle diameters of the R30 precursors and R30 powders were 1300+ 249 nm and 226+ 41 nm, respectively, indicating that the spherical precursors shrank to 17% of their precursor’s diameter during HT The significant decrease of sphere sizes during HT in the present study can be attributed to the decomposition of the core carbon and subsequent sintering between primary particles
To confirm this, the R30 precursors were heat treated at a more rapid heating rate for a shorter duration at HTT (Fig 4) The sphere diameters decreased with increasing thermal energy input dur- ing HT At a high heating rate (20°C/min) and short duration at HTT (10 min), the powders retained their black color after HT, indi- cating the incomplete decomposition of core carbon (R30-RH-SD
Fig 3 Scanning electron micrographs of (a) R30 precursors, (b) R30 powders, (c) R5 precursors, (d) R5 powders, (e) RO.5 precursors, and (f) RO.5 powders The powders (b),
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Fig 4 The sphere diameters according to heat treatment schedules and transmission electron micrographs of (a) R30 precursors, (b) R30-RH powders heat treated at 450°C for 40 min (heating rate: 20°C/min) and (c) R30 powders heat treated at 450°C for 1h (heating rate: 5°C/min) (RH-SD: rapid heating and short duration at heat treatment temperature; RH: rapid heating)
powders) However, whitish yellow powders could be prepared
by increasing the duration at HTT from 10 min to 40 min (R30-RH
powders)
The TEM image of the R30 precursor showed a very clean sur-
face (Fig 4(a)) Even the small spheres showed a completely black
contour, indicating that the precursors were not hollow but solid
and consisted of carbon and W precursors After HT with grad-
ual heating rate and long duration at HTT (R30 powders), most
of the powders showed a solid and nano-porous morphology but
a few spheres showed a hollow morphology (arrow and inset in
Fig 4(c)) In contrast, most of the spheres showed a hollow mor-
phology due to the rapid heating to HTT (R30-RH powders and
Fig 4(b)), although solid and nano-porous spheres were also found
The hollow shell was ~30 nm thin (inset in Fig 4(b))
Sun and Li [12] suggested that monodisperse carbon micro-
spheres with hydrophilic surface can be prepared by the
hydrothermal reaction of glucose The polymerization of glucose
into aromatic compounds and oligosaccharides and their subse-
quent carbonization into spheres were suggested as the formation
mechanism The OH and CHO groups bonded to the surfaces of
the carbon spheres are advantageous for the reaction with metal
cations Titirichi [13] prepared metal-ion-coated carbon spheres by
one-pot hydrothermal reaction of a solution containing glucose and
metal salts and transformed these spheres into metal oxide hollow
spheres by the decomposition of the core carbon
In the present study, the hollow morphologies were found at
the R30-RH powders This indicates that the carbon spheres with
hydrophilic surfaces are formed by the cross linking between glu-
cose in the beginning stage of reaction and W ions are coated on the
negatively charged surface of carbon spheres in the later stage of
reaction Thus, the precursors in Fig 4(a) can be regarded as carbon
spheres loosely coated with W-precursors The precursor spheres were transformed to hollow WO3 spheres by the decomposition
of the core carbon (Fig 4(b)) and then further transformed into solid and nano-porous spheres by the sintering between the WO3 primary particles within the spheres (Fig 4(c))
3.3 Surface area and porosity The nitrogen adsorption—desorption isotherms plots and corre- sponding pore-size distribution plots of R30-RH, R30, R5, and RO.5 powders are given in Fig 5 The volumes of pores in the size range
of 2-70 nm for the R30-RH and R30 powders were markedly larger that those for the R5 and RO.5 powders The surface area of the R30-
RH, R30, R5, and RO.5 powders were 19.0, 12.7, 7.22, and 1.27 m2/g, respectively, indicating that the spherical WO3 powders prepared
at R= 30 (R30 and R30-RH powders) were advantageous to achieve high gas responses Indeed, the gas responses of the R5 and RO.5 powders to NO2, C2H50H, CH3COCH3, CO, C3Hg, and CHy were very low (not shown), while the R30 and R30-RH powders showed very high gas responses (as presented below) The large pore volume
of the R30 powders (Fig 5), despite their apparently solid interior structure (Fig 4(c)), was attributed to their evolution from hollow spheres The further increase of pore volumes in the size range of 5-20nm by the employment of rapid heating indicates that the hollow morphology of R30-RH powders is advantageous to achieve both of high surface area and large pore volume
3.4 Gas sensing characteristics
As stated above, the gas responses of the R5 and RO.5 powders were negligible Thus, the gas responses of the R30-RH and R30
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distribution plots of R30-RH, R30, R5, and RO.5 powders
powders at 300°C were measured and the results are shown in
Fig 6 Note that the gas response to NOz is the Rg/Ra value and
those to other gases are the Ra/Rg values The increase of resis-
tance upon exposure to NOs in WO3 can be explained by the
adsorption of the more negatively charged oxygen on the surface
(NO2(g)+e7 + NO(g)+ O° (surf)) The gas response (Rg/Ra) of R30
powders to 1 ppm NO» was 20.1, while the responses (Ra/Rg) to
100 ppm CH3COCH3, CO, C3Hg, CH4y, and C2>H50H were very low
(1.1-3.3) (Fig 6(b)) The concentration of NO2 was 1/100 of those of
the other gases These results demonstrated the high gas response
and selective detection of WO3 nano-porous microspheres to NO>
The selective detection and gas responses were enhanced further
by the use of hollow R30-RH powders The R¢g/Ra value to 1 ppm NO»
was increased to 53.9 whereas those to the other gases decreased
to 1.1-1.9 (Fig 6(a))
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Fig 6 Gas responses to 1 ppm NO2 and 100 ppm CH3COCHs, CO, C3Hsg, CHa, and C,H; 0H at 300 °C in air: (a) R30-RH powders heat treated at 450 °C for 40 min (heat- ing rate: 20°C/min) and (b) R30 powders heat treated at 450°C for 1 h (heating rate: 5°C/min) The gas response to NO; ¡s the R,/R, value and those to other gases are the Ra/Re values
The sensing transients to 0.5-2.5 ppm NO, of the R30-RH and R30 powders at 300°C are shown in Fig 7(a) and (b), respectively The sensor resistance in air (Ra) was rather high (40-50 MQ).When exposed to NOz, the sensor resistance greatly increased up to a few
GQ level The gas responses of the R30-RH sensor to 0.5-2.5 ppm NO2 were 38.6-81.5, which were 2.2-2.9 times higher than those
of the R30 sensor (13.4—36.5) (Fig 7(c))
Table 2 summarizes the NO> responses of the undoped WO3 sen- sors estimated from the literature data [16-27] Most of the WO3 sensors were operated at 100-300 °C and the response to NO var- ied greatly according to the morphology and preparation method
of the sensor materials Our result of Rg/Ra =53.9 to 1 ppm NOz is compares very favorably to the values reported in the literature [16-27], although a few studies [19,20,22,25] have reported higher gas responses
The higher gas response of the R30 microspheres than those
of the R5 and RO5 powders was attributed to the higher surface area for gas sensing reaction and the large pore volume for the effective gas diffusion (Fig 5) The gas response was improved fur-
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0 100 200 300 40 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0
Fig 7 Dynamic sensing transients of (a) R30-RH and (b) R30 sensors and (c) gas responses (Rz/Ra ) of R30-RH and R30 sensors to 0.5-2.5 ppm NO.
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Table 2
Gas responses to NOz in the present study and those reported in the literature [16-27]
WO; sensing materials (preparation) [NO;] Rg}Ra Sensing temperature (°C) Reference
WO; nanopetals (dealloying of W-Al alloy and thermal oxidation) 5 ppm ~4 250 [24]
ther by the employment of a more hollow morphology through
the rapid decomposition of the core carbon (R30-RH powders)
Although the R30 powders are relatively porous, the diffusion of
NO; to the center of the WO3 secondary spheres can be hampered in
part by the tortuous configuration of the nanopores, which becomes
more significant when the secondary spheres become larger This
decreases the gas response because only the surface region of the
microspheres changes the resistance by the gas sensing reaction
In contrast, a hollow morphology with a thin shell configuration
and large pore volume facilitates the in-diffusion of the sensing gas
and counter-diffusion of the reactant gas With effective gas diffu-
sion, the resistance of all the primary particles within the secondary
hollow spheres is affected upon NO, exposure, which increases the
gas response Thus, the WO3 hollow microspheres examined in the
present study are promising sensing materials to detect NO with
a high sensitivity and selectivity
4 Conclusion
WO3 hollow microspheres were prepared by the glucose-
mediated, hydrothermal synthesis of W-coated carbon spheres and
their calcination at 450°C With the input of increasing thermal
energy during calcination, the hollow WO3 microspheres were
gradually transformed into solid microspheres Both hollow and
solid WO3 microspheres showed high response and selective detec-
tion to 0.5-2.5 ppm NOa In particular, the responses to NO2 were
increased 2.2-2.9 times by using hollow morphology, which was
attributed to the high surface area for gas sensing and the effec-
tive diffusion of NO» toward all the primary particles through the
nano-porous and thin shell layers
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by KOSEF NRL program grant funded
by the Korean Government (MEST) (No ROA-2008-000-20032-0)
and a grant from the Fundamental R&D program for Core Tech-
nology of Materials (M2008010013) funded by the Ministry of
Knowledge Economy, Republic of Korea
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Biographies
Choong-Yong Lee studied materials science and engineering and received his BS
degree from Korea University in 2007 He is currently a master course student at
Korea University His research involves the preparation of oxide nanostructures for
gas sensor applications
Sun-Jung Kim studied materials science and engineering and received his BS and
MS degrees in 2006 and 2008, respectively, at Korea University in Korea He is cur-
rently studying for PhD degree at Korea University His research interests are oxide
nanostructures for chemical sensor applications and the combinatorial design of gas
sensing materials
In-Sung Hwang studied materials science and engineering and received his BS from Kumoh National University, Korea, in 2004 In 2006, he received his MS degree from Korea University He is currently studying for a PhD at Korea University His research interest is oxide nanostructure-based electronic devices
Jong-Heun Lee has been a Professor at Korea University since 2008 He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from Seoul National University in 1987, 1989, and
1993, respectively Between 1993 and 1999, he developed automotive air-fuel- ratio sensors at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology He was a Science and Technology Agency of Japan (STA) fellow at the National Institute for Research
in Inorganic Materials (currently NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan) from 1999 to 2000, a research professor at Seoul National University from 2000 to 2003, and an asso- ciate professor at Korea University from 2003 to 2008 His current research interests include chemical sensors, functional nanostructures, and solid oxide electrolytes.