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Array Based Carbon Black-Polymer Composite Vapor Detectors for Detection of DNT in Environments Containing Complex Analyte Mixtures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Shawn M. Briglin ,
Michael S. Freund ,
Brian C. Sisk  and
Nathan S. Lewis
Nathan S. Lewis
Affiliation:
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Noyes Laboratory, 127-72 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
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Abstract

Thin films of carbon black-organic polymer composites have been deposited across two metallic leads, with sorption of vapors producing swelling-induced resistance changes of the detector films. To identify and classify vapors, arrays of such vapor sensing elements have been constructed in which each element of the array contains a different polymer as the insulating phase and a common conductor, carbon black, as the conducting phase. The differing gas-solid partition coefficients for the various polymers of the detector array produce a pattern of differential resistance changes that is used to classify vapors and vapor mixtures. The performance of this detector array system towards 2,4-dinitrotoluene, the predominant signature in the vapor phase above land mines, in the presence high concentrations of water or of acetone (as a selected volatile organic carbon vapor), has been evaluated.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 700: Symposium S – Combinatorial and Artificial Intelligence Methods in Materials Science , 2001 , S4.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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