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Methanol detection by a mwcnt/pedot:pss nanocomposite sensor

A. A. Al-Hamry, B. H. Pan, C. T. Lu, D. O.Kanoun

Abstract

In this paper, the sensing properties of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) and conductive polymer mixture poly(3,4- ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) nanocomposites towards methanol vapor were measured at room temperature. The proposed MWCNT/PEDOT:PSS sensors were fabricated by coating different volumes of the dispersions on the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) flexible substrate to produce different film thicknesses. The substrate was already coated with screen-printed silver interdigitated electrodes. Compared with MWCNT films, the proposed composite films significantly showed a higher response toward methanol vapor. The thinnest film with only 5 µL drop casted dispersion has shown the best response, 27.62 % change in resistance at 70 ppm.

Keywords
MWCNT; PEDOT:PSS; nanocomposites; VOCs sensor; Methanol
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DOI
10.21014/tc19-2022.15
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TC19 - Environmental Measurements

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Event
TC19 Symposium: Metrology on Environmental Instrumentation and Measurements (EnvIMEKO 2022)
Technical Committee
TC19
Email
envimeko.lemans.2022@gmail.com
Place
La Mans, FRANCE
Time
2 June 2022 - 3 June 2022
Website
https://easychair.org/cfp/EnvIMEKO_2022

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