Achieving precise and real-time detection of trace hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and its related malodorous substances is essential for advancing a proactive prevention-oriented environmental governance model. However, metal-oxide-based H2S sensors often suffer from high operating temperatures, inadequate selectivity, and sluggish response/recovery times. In this study, we fabricate a ternary SnO2-doped graphene/FDM-23 (Fudan Material-23) epitaxial composite, which integrates SnO2 nanoparticles into a graphene-epitaxial FDM-23 metal-organic framework (MOF) matrix, enabling ultrafast and sensitive H2S sensing at room temperature (25 °C). The sensor based on the composite demonstrates a 3.7% response to 1 ppm of H2S with response/recovery times of 3.9 s/7.6 s, and its calculated limit of detection (LOD) is as low as 6.9 ppb. Notably, the distinct response profiles of the sensor toward five similar volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) are subjected to principal component analysis (PCA) for effective clustering, while support vector machine (SVM) classification achieves a high identification accuracy of 97.1%.
Li et al. (2026) studied this question.