A Gas Sensor Based on Network Nanowire for H2S Monitor in Construction Waste Landfill

As an extremely harmful gas, H2S gas is the major pollutant in construction waste landfill. Herein, a one-dimensional oxide nanomaterial was produced from a simple wet chemical method to serve as a H2S gas sensing material. The SEM observation indicates that the nanomaterial with network structure is constructed by a lot of nanowires with an approximate diameter from 24 nm to 40 nm. The sensing film was formed on a ceramic substrate using a slurry composed of the as-prepared network nanowires. Furthermore, a gas sensing measurement was carried out to determine the gas sensing performances towards the H2S gas. The detection results at different working temperature towards various gas concentrations demonstrate that the network nanowires-based sensor exhibits a higher gas response to H2S as compared to that of the rod-like one. The optimum working temperature of the network and rod-like nanomaterials is both 300 °C, and the corresponding maximum gas response is 24.4 and 13.6, respectively. Namely, the gas response of the network-based gas sensor is almost larger than that of the rod-like oxide. Moreover, the network nanowires-based gas sensor display a faster gas response and recovery speed. In addition, the fabricated gas sensors all exhibit excellent repeatability. Such improved sensing properties may offer a promising potential to realize an efficient detection of harmful H2S gas released from construction waste landfill.