Author, as appears in the article.: Sharafeldin I; Garcia-Rios S; Ahmed N; Alvarado M; Vilanova X; Allam NK
Department: Enginyeria Electrònica, Elèctrica i Automàtica
URV's Author/s: Vilanova Salas, Javier
Keywords: Transition metal decoration Gas sensor Carbon nanotubes
Abstract: © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. Herein, we report a toxic gas detector based on an array of metal-decorated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (M-MWCNTs) sensors. The room temperature (20 °C) response of the sensors array towards NO2, H2S, NH3, and CO gases was investigated. The MWCNTs were decorated with transition metals, Pt, Ti, Ag, Ru, and Cu to enhance the sensitivity and selectivity of the carbon nanotubes to the toxic gases. The M-MWCNTs powders were deposited on gold electrodes and printed on flexible Kapton sheets to form the sensors array. CO exhibited the lowest resistance change response for all six sensors (five transition metal-decorated MWCNTs sensors and one pristine MWCNTs-based sensor), with the Ag-MWCNTs sensor exhibiting the highest response of 0.047-100 ppm CO. The Ag-MWCNTs also revealed the relatively highest sensitivity of 0.944 upon exposure to 100 ppm NH3. The Cu-MWCNTs sensor showed the highest sensitivity of 1.75 upon exposure to 10 ppm H2S, while the Pt-MWCNTs sensor showed the highest response of 1.96 upon exposure to 10 ppm NO2. A unique response pattern was generated for each gas that can be used for its identification. The experimental results were also compared to our previously reported density functional theory (DFT) calculations, revealing the same order of resistance change, thereby validating the use of DFT as a tool to predict the interaction properties and providing an in-depth understanding of the reducing/oxidizing gas electron transfer mechanisms.
Thematic Areas: Waste management and disposal Química Process chemistry and technology Pollution Materiais Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Interdisciplinar Farmacia Engineering, environmental Engineering, chemical Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Engenharias i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência de alimentos Chemical engineering (miscellaneous) Biotecnología Astronomia / física
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: xavier.vilanova@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-6245-7933
Record's date: 2024-07-27
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213343720308836
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Journal Of Environmental Chemical Engineering. 9 (1):
APA: Sharafeldin I; Garcia-Rios S; Ahmed N; Alvarado M; Vilanova X; Allam NK (2021). Metal-decorated carbon nanotubes-based sensor array for simultaneous detection of toxic gases. Journal Of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(1), -. DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2020.104534
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2020.104534
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications