Room Temperature Resistive Volatile Organic Compound Sensing Materials Based on a Hybrid Structure of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes and Conformal oCVD/iCVD Polymer Coatings
ACS Sensors(2016)
Abstract
Room temperature resistive volatile organic compound (VOC) sensing materials fabricated with vertically aligned-carbon nanotubes (VA-CNT) demonstrated 10-fold improved sensitivity upon application of a thin conformal layer of the conducting polymer coating ((poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT)). The PEDOT was directly synthesized on the VA-CNTs via oxidative chemical vapor deposition (oCVD). Conformal PEDOT coatings with thickness of 8 and 17 nm were easily achievable by oCVD. The hybrid VA-CNT/oCVD PEDOT sensing materials exhibited excellent response to low concentrations of analyte gases of different polarity. The projected detection limit for n-pentane is as low as ∼50 ppm. A second polymer layer, nonconducting polystyrene (PS, ∼6 nm), was further conformally coated on the VA-CNT/PEDOT via initiative chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) to enhance the gas selectivity. The iCVD PS enhanced the selectivity of n-pentane over methanol by 2.7-fold and toluene by 4.4-fold. Several unique advantages of these...
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carbon nanotubes,oCVD,iCVD,polymer,gas sensing material
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