Bead Necklace-Shaped Single Walled Carbon Nanotube-Polypyrrole Nanocomposites for Ammonia Gas Sensor

Wen Xuan Du; Jun-Ho Byeon; Sungmin Kang; Masaki Takada; Jin-Yeol Kim

Macromolecular Research, Vol.29, No.6, 418-422, June, 2021

DOI10.1007/s13233-021-9049-9 Export Citation

Bead Necklace-Shaped Single Walled Carbon Nanotube-Polypyrrole Nanocomposites for Ammonia Gas Sensor

Wen Xuan Du¹, Jun-Ho Byeon¹, Sungmin Kang^{2, 3, †}, Masaki Takada², and Jin-Yeol Kim^{1, †}

¹School of Advanced Materials Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul 02707, Korea
²Advanced Technology Research Dep. LG Japan Lab Inc., 4-13-14, Higashi Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002, Japan
³Institute of Innovative Research Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan

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The nanocomposite of bead necklace-like structure in which single stands of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) are impregnated in several polypyrrole (PPy)/phenylalanine (PA), PPy@PA, nanoparticles, with an average bead diameter of 80 nm and SWCNT length of 5 μm, as a sensing material for detecting ammonia gas, was synthesized by simple emulsion polymerization. The synthesized nanocomposite showed an electrical conductivity more than 5 times higher than that of PPy alone with a selective reactivity to ammonia gas. In addition, it exhibited a high sensitivity of less than 100 ppb at room temperature and was not significantly affected by the sensitivity even under the humidity conditions of 0 ~70% RH (relative humidity).

Keywords:single-walled carbon nanotube-polypyrrole nanocomposite;ammonia gas sensor;low-concentration;humidity stable;room temperature

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