Highly sensitive triethylamine sensor with ppb level detection limit based on SnSe nanofibers

To overcome the high-power consumption and poor selectivity of gas sensors and achieve ppb level low concentration gas sensing is an urgent need to widely deploy sensors to establish an air quality monitoring application network. In this paper, a fish-mesh SnSe nanofibers with diameter of 100 nm prepared by uniaxial electrospinning was introduced and its gas sensitivity was studied. The gas sensor based on SnSe nanofibers showed excellent selectivity and high sensitivity (31.07) for low concentration (10 ppm) triethylamine at low temperature (160 °C), and a low detection base limit (500 ppb). Therefore, fish-mesh SnSe nanofibers provide a new strategy for the preparation of high-performance triethylamine sensors.