Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry, Center for Nanotechnology and R & D Center for Membrane Technology at Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung Li 32023, Taiwan
2. Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Santo Tomas, Manila 1015, Philippines
3. Department of Molecular Science and Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 10608, Taiwan
Abstract
In this study, a high-performance H2S sensor that operates at RT was successfully fabricated using biodegradable electroactive polymer-polyurethane-urea (PUU) and PUU-activated-carbon (AC) composites as sensitive material. The PUU was synthesized through the copolymerization of biodegradable polycaprolactone diol and an electroactive amine-capped aniline trimer. AC, with a large surface area of 1620 m2/g and a pore diameter of 2 nm, was derived from coconut-shell waste. The composites, labeled PUU-AC1 and PUU-AC3, were prepared using a physical mixing method. The H2S-gas-sensing performance of PUU-AC0, PUU-AC1, and PUU-AC3 was evaluated. It was found that the PUU sensor demonstrated good H2S-sensing performance, with a sensitivity of 0.1269 ppm−1 H2S. The H2S-gas-sensing results indicated that the PUU-AC composites showed a higher response, compared with PUU-AC0. The enhanced H2S-response of the PUU-AC composites was speculated to be due to the high surface-area and abounding reaction-sites, which accelerated gas diffusion and adsorption and electron transfer. When detecting trace levels of H2S gas at 20 ppm, the sensitivity of the sensors based on PUU-AC1 and PUU-AC3 increased significantly. An observed 1.66 and 2.42 times’ enhancement, respectively, in the sensors’ sensitivity was evident, compared with PUU-AC0 alone. Moreover, the as-prepared sensors exhibited significantly high selectivity toward H2S, with minimal to almost negligible responses toward other gases, such as SO2, NO2, NH3, CO, and CO2.
Funder
National Science Technology Council Taiwan
Subject
Polymers and Plastics,General Chemistry
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