7–11 Jul 2025
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Gas sensing properties of annealed and unannealed CoWO4 for air quality monitoring

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Solomon Mahlangu House (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

Solomon Mahlangu House

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Poster Presentation Track A - Physics of Condensed Matter and Materials Poster Session

Speaker

Mr Thokozani Mpanza (University of Zululand)

Description

The cobalt tungstate (CoWO4) nanostructures were prepared using the hydrothermal method. Nanostructures were annealed to compare the structural, optical and gas sensing properties of annealed and unannealed CoWO4. The UV-VIS spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron micro-scope (SEM) and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS) were used to examine the samples opti-cal, structural, morphological and composition properties respectively. The samples showed different XRD phases, where unannealed was hexagonal and annealed sample was monoclinic in structure. Dif-ferent SEM morphologies and optical band gaps of nanostructures were observed. The samples were further tested for their gas sensing properties and the unannealed CoWO4 showed the promising gas sensing performance towards NH3.

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Primary author

Mr Thokozani Mpanza (University of Zululand)

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