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Kim JH, Song MJ, Kim KB, et al. Evaluation of Surface Cleaning Procedures in Terms of Gas Sensing Properties of Spray-Deposited CNT Film: Thermal- and O₂ Plasma Treatments. Sensors (Basel). 2016;17(1)doi: 10.3390/s17010073.
Kim, J. H., Song, M. J., Kim, K. B., Jin, J. H., & Min, N. K. (2016). Evaluation of Surface Cleaning Procedures in Terms of Gas Sensing Properties of Spray-Deposited CNT Film: Thermal- and O₂ Plasma Treatments. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 17(1), . https://doi.org/10.3390/s17010073
Kim, Joon Hyub, et al. "Evaluation of Surface Cleaning Procedures in Terms of Gas Sensing Properties of Spray-Deposited CNT Film: Thermal- and O₂ Plasma Treatments." Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) vol. 17,1 (2016). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/s17010073
Kim JH, Song MJ, Kim KB, Jin JH, Min NK. Evaluation of Surface Cleaning Procedures in Terms of Gas Sensing Properties of Spray-Deposited CNT Film: Thermal- and O₂ Plasma Treatments. Sensors (Basel). 2016 Dec 30;17(1). doi: 10.3390/s17010073. PMID: 28042843; PMCID: PMC5298646.
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Sensors (Basel). 2016 Dec 30;17(1). doi: 10.3390/s17010073.

Evaluation of Surface Cleaning Procedures in Terms of Gas Sensing Properties of Spray-Deposited CNT Film: Thermal- and O₂ Plasma Treatments.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

Joon Hyub Kim, Min-Jung Song, Ki Beom Kim, Joon-Hyung Jin, Nam Ki Min

Affiliations

  1. Department of Electro-Mechanical Systems Engineering, Korea University, 2511 Sejong-ro, Sejong City 339-770, Korea. [email protected].
  2. College of Liberal Art & Interdisciplinary Studies, Kyonggi University, 154-42 Gwanggyosan-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do 443-760, Korea. [email protected].
  3. Department of Electro-Mechanical Systems Engineering, Korea University, 2511 Sejong-ro, Sejong City 339-770, Korea. [email protected].
  4. National Institute for Nanomaterial Technology, POSTECH 77, Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Phohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Korea. [email protected].
  5. Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyonggi University, 154-42 Gwanggyosan-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do 443-760, Korea. [email protected].
  6. Department of Electro-Mechanical Systems Engineering, Korea University, 2511 Sejong-ro, Sejong City 339-770, Korea. [email protected].

PMID: 28042843 PMCID: PMC5298646 DOI: 10.3390/s17010073

Abstract

The effect of cleaning the surface of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) networks by thermal and the O₂ plasma treatments is presented in terms of NH₃ gas sensing characteristics. The goal of this work is to determine the relationship between the physicochemical properties of the cleaned surface (including the chemical composition, crystal structure, hydrophilicity, and impurity content) and the sensitivity of the SWNT network films to NH₃ gas. The SWNT networks are spray-deposited on pre-patterned Pt electrodes, and are further functionalized by heating on a programmable hot plate or by O₂ plasma treatment in a laboratory-prepared plasma chamber. Cyclic voltammetry was employed to semi-quantitatively evaluate each surface state of various plasma-treated SWNT-based electrodes. The results show that O₂ plasma treatment can more effectively modify the SWNT network surface than thermal cleaning, and can provide a better conductive network surface due to the larger number of carbonyl/carboxyl groups, enabling a faster electron transfer rate, even though both the thermal cleaning and the O₂ plasma cleaning methods can eliminate the organic solvent residues from the network surface. The NH₃ sensors based on the O₂ plasma-treated SWNT network exhibit higher sensitivity, shorter response time, and better recovery of the initial resistance than those prepared employing the thermally-cleaned SWNT networks.

Keywords: ammonia gas sensor; oxygen plasma cleaning; single-walled carbon nanotube; spray coating; thermal cleaning

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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