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Chemistry of Oxygen Ionosorption on SnO₂ Surfaces.

ABSTRACT: Ionosorbed oxygen is the key player in reactions on metal-oxide surfaces. This is particularly evident for chemiresistive gas sensors, which operate by modulating the conductivity of active materials through the formation/removal of surface O-related acceptors. Strikingly though, the exact type of species behind the sensing response remains obscure even for the most common material systems. The paradigm for ab initio modeling to date has been centered around charge-neutral surface species, ignoring the fact that molecular adsorbates are required to ionize to induce the sensing response. Herein, we resolve this inconsistency by carrying out a careful analysis of all charged O-related species on three naturally occurring surfaces of SnO₂. We reveal that two types of surface acceptors can form spontaneously upon the adsorption of atmospheric oxygen: (i) superoxide O₂^- on the (110) and the (101) surfaces and (ii) doubly ionized O^2- on the (100) facet, with the previous experimental evidence pointing to the latter as the source of sensing response. This species has a unique geometry involving a large displacement of surface Sn, forcing it to attain the coordination resembling that of Sn²⁺ in SnO, which seems necessary to stabilize O^2- and activate metal-oxide surfaces for gas sensing.

SUBMITTER: Sopiha KV

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