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M. POST
ICPET, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Abstract. SiO2 sol-gel films doped with cobalt oxide nanocrystals have been fabricated. The nanocrystals precip-
itate in the glass film at 500 C, while the film is still porous. The nanocomposite films showed a reversible change
in the optical transmittance when exposed to CO in the 250 < < 850 nm range. The effects of the residual porosity
and testing temperature have been studied. The gas sensing properties of the cobalt oxide nanocrystals doped films
are compared with those of nickel oxide nanocrystals doped silica film, previously reported.
Figure 2. Optical transmittance spectra of films heated at 500 C in Figure 4. Variation of the optical transmittance at = 400 nm
air (straight line) and in 1 vol%CO in air (dot line) at 300 C. The and at testing temperature of 350 C for films heat treated at 500 and
transmittance in CO was measured after 2 min exposure. 700 C exposed to 1 vol% CO in air.
Table 1. Variation of the position of the main Respect to the previous results obtained on NiO
Si O vibration band in films heated at different nanocomposites [3], which showed almost the same in-
temperatures.
crease in transmittance all over the 250 < < 850 nm
Heat treatment Peak position of main range, the Co3 O4 nanocrystals doped silica films
temperature ( C) Si O vibration (cm1 ) showed a maximum around 400 nm roughly corre-
500 1052 sponding to the absorption band of the Co3+ center in
600 1053 the octahedral sublattices of the Co3 O4 spinel. The in-
700 1073 crease in transmittance and the rate of transmittance
800 1077 change were very similar for both nanocomposites
films, while the response of NiO doped films was faster.
Experiments are in course to understand the nature of
the observed differences.
FTIR measurements. With increased densification, the
porosity of the films decreases and this constricts and
Acknowledgments
limits the availability of paths of the gas molecules
for reaching the surface of the cobalt oxide nanocrys-
This work has been developed in the framework of a
tals in the SiO2 matrix. However other factors such as
program between CNR and MIUR (Legge 16/10/2000
cobalt oxide nanocrystals size and matrix stochiome-
fondo FISR).
try may play a role in the observed effect. Figure 4
also shows a saturation time of about 120 min in agree-
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