Ammonia gas sensing behavior of tanninsulfonic acid doped polyaniline-TiO2 composite

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 26415-26429

  Bairi, Venu Gopal ^a   Bourdo, Shawn E ^b   Sacre, Nicolas ^b   Nair, Dev ^b   Berry, Brian C ^a   Biris, Alexandru S ^b   Viswanathan, Tito ^a  

^a Department of chemistry University of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia gas sensors; Chemical properties; Composites; Conducting polymers; Electrical properties

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CHEMICAL SENSORS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FLAVONOIDS; GAS DETECTORS; GAS SENSING ELECTRODES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METALS; OXIDES; POLYANILINE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPIN GLASS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TANNINS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ACID-DOPED POLYANILINE; AMMONIA GAS SENSORS; ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; IN-SITU POLYMERIZATION; POLYANILINE COMPOSITES; SURFACE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLES;

GASES;

EID: 84945207962     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s151026415     Document Type: Article

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