Plastic colorimetric film sensors for gaseous ammonia |
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Authors: | Andrew Mills Lorraine Wild Qing Chang |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Chemistry, University College of Swansea, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP Swansea, UK |
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Abstract: | The preparation and characterization of three different plastic thin-film colorimetric sensors for gaseous ammonia is described. In the film sensors, the neutral form of a pH-sensitive dye (Bromophenol Blue, Bromocresol Green or Chlorophenol Red) was encapsulated in a plastic medium, either poly(vinyl butyral) or ethylcellulose plasticized with tributyl phosphate. Each of these film optodes gave a reproducible and reversible response towards gaseous ammonia. The sensitivity of the film sensors towards ammonia was found to be strongly dependent upon the pK
a of the encapsulated dye. Thus, the film with Chlorophenol Red (pK
a = 6.25), proved to be very insensitive (operating range: 0.29% < %NH3 < 100%), whereas the film with Bromophenol Blue (pK
a = 4.1), was much more sensitive (operating range: 0.0003% < %NH3 < 0.11%). The sensitivity of a plastic film sensor decreased markedly with increasing operating temperature and the 90% response (15–38 s) and recovery (820-127 s) times were slow and activation-controlled. |
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Keywords: | ammonia sensor colorimetric plastic optical |
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