Polymer coated quartz crystal microbalance sensors for detection of volatile organic compounds in gas mixtures

Anal Chim Acta. 2007 Aug 6;597(2):223-30. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2007.06.050. Epub 2007 Jun 28.

Abstract

By coating different conducting polymers of thiophene and its derivatives on quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensor surfaces, new novel QCM gas sensors have been produced in two simple ways, which could classify testing gas samples of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) gases. Principle components analysis (PCA) has been performed based on the QCM measurement results, which shows that our QCM sensors array has very good utilizing potential on sensing both polar and low-polar/nonpolar VOC gases. The sensitivity, selectivity, reproducibility and detection limit of QCM sensors have also been discussed. Quantitative variation of sensitivity response with the increasing concentration has been studied. (PLS) analysis and prediction of concentrations of single gas in mixtures have been carried out.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Calibration
  • Crystallization
  • Electric Conductivity
  • Electrochemistry
  • Ethanol / chemistry
  • Gases / chemistry*
  • Molecular Structure
  • Organic Chemicals / analysis*
  • Organic Chemicals / chemistry*
  • Polymers / chemistry*
  • Quartz / chemistry*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Toluene / chemistry
  • Volatilization

Substances

  • Gases
  • Organic Chemicals
  • Polymers
  • Quartz
  • Toluene
  • Ethanol