Towards Low Cost and Low Temperature Capacitive CO2 Sensors Based on Amine Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental
2.1. Fabrication of Transducers and Calibration of the Resistive Heater
2.2. Synthesis of the Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Sensing Material
2.3. Coating of the Hybrid Sensing Material onto the Interdigitated Transducer
2.4. Gas Mixing Apparatus and Capacitance Measurements of Coated Interdigitated Transducers
2.5. Analytical Methods of As-Prepared Raw Hybrid Materials
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Nitrogen Sorption Characteristic of As-Prepared Raw Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Materials
3.2. Thermal Stability Analysis of the As-Prepared Raw Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Materials
3.3. FTIR Analysis of the As-Prepared Raw Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Materials
3.4. Sensing Performance towards CO2 of Coated Interdigitated Transducers
3.4.1. Dynamic Sensing
3.4.2. Long-Term Stability of a CO2 Gas Sensor
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Materials | SBET (M2 G−1) | Vp (CM3 G−1) |
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PURE SILICA | 189.74 | 0.741 |
PEI@SILICA (100 NM) | 24.1 | 0.0058 |
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Boudaden, J.; Klumpp, A.; Endres, H.-E.; Eisele, I. Towards Low Cost and Low Temperature Capacitive CO2 Sensors Based on Amine Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles. Nanomaterials 2019, 9, 1097. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9081097
Boudaden J, Klumpp A, Endres H-E, Eisele I. Towards Low Cost and Low Temperature Capacitive CO2 Sensors Based on Amine Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles. Nanomaterials. 2019; 9(8):1097. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9081097
Chicago/Turabian StyleBoudaden, Jamila, Armin Klumpp, Hanns-Erik Endres, and Ignaz Eisele. 2019. "Towards Low Cost and Low Temperature Capacitive CO2 Sensors Based on Amine Functionalized Silica Nanoparticles" Nanomaterials 9, no. 8: 1097. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9081097