H2S Sensing by Hybrids Based on Nanocrystalline SnO2 Functionalized with Cu(II) Organometallic Complexes: The Role of the Ligand Platform

Abstract

This paper deals with the functionalization of nanocrystalline SnO2 with Cu(II) complexes with organic ligands, aimed at the improvement of sensor selectivity towards gas molecules. For the synthesis of metalorganic/SnO2 hybrid material complexes of Cu(II) with phthalocyanine, porphyrinines, bipyridine and azadithiacrown etherwere used. The analysis of gas sensor properties showed the possibility of increasing the sensitivity and selectivity of hybrid materials in H2S detection due to the electron transfer from SnO2 to an adsorbed organic molecule, which changes during the interaction between H2S and Cu(II) ions.

Keywords

• organic–inorganic hybrid materials
• tin dioxide
• Cu(II) complex
• H2S
• semiconductor gas sensor