Cellulose Fibers Enable Near-Zero-Cost Electrical Sensing of Water-Soluble Gases
Barandun Giandrin, Soprani Matteo, Naficy Sina, Grell Max, Kasimatis Michael, Chiu Kwan Lun, Ponzoni Andrea, Guder Firat
Water Bioengineering TIME-TEMPERATURE INTEGRATORS QUALITY 0903 Biomedical Engineering food quality Article Cellulose 0301 Analytical Chemistry Instrumentation Meat Science & Technology Electrodes Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes Fishes Analytical Food Packaging Sensors INDEX Multidisciplinary SPOILAGE Limit of Detection cellulose paper Electrochemical Techniques AMMONIA Solubility Science & Technology - Other Topics 1007 Nanotechnology RFID tags Carbon Food Preservation Process Chemistry and Technology Gases Physical Sciences Chemistry Animals Chickens FISH PH Paper Methylamines waste prevention FOOD
We report an entirely new class of printed electrical gas sensors that are produced at near "zero cost". This technology exploits the intrinsic hygroscopic properties of cellulose fibers within paper; although it feels and looks dry, paper contains substantial amount of moisture, adsorbed from the environment, enabling the use of wet chemical methods for sensing without manually adding water to the substrate. The sensors exhibit high sensitivity to water-soluble gases (e.g., lower limit of detection for NH3 < 200 parts-per-billion) with a fast and reversible response. The sensors show comparable or better performance (especially at high relative humidity) than most commercial ammonia sensors at a fraction of their price (<$0.02 per sensor). We demonstrate that the sensors proposed can be integrated into food packaging to monitor freshness (to reduce food waste and plastic pollution) or implemented into near-field-communication tags to function as wireless, battery-less gas sensors that can be interrogated with smartphones.
Source: ACS sensors Online 4 (2019): 1662–1669. doi:10.1021/acssensors.9b00555
Publisher: American Chemical Society, Washington, Stati Uniti d'America
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@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:420866,
title = {Cellulose Fibers Enable Near-Zero-Cost Electrical Sensing of Water-Soluble Gases},
author = {Barandun Giandrin and Soprani Matteo and Naficy Sina and Grell Max and Kasimatis Michael and Chiu Kwan Lun and Ponzoni Andrea and Guder Firat},
publisher = {American Chemical Society, Washington, Stati Uniti d'America},
doi = {10.1021/acssensors.9b00555},
journal = {ACS sensors Online},
volume = {4},
pages = {1662–1669},
year = {2019}
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