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Non-covalently anchored multi-walled carbon nanotubes with hexa-decafluorinated zinc phthalocyanine as ppb level chemiresistive chlorine sensor

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Title Non-covalently anchored multi-walled carbon nanotubes with hexa-decafluorinated zinc phthalocyanine as ppb level chemiresistive chlorine sensor
 
Creator Sharma, Anshul Kumar
Mahajan, Aman
Bedi, R. K.
Kumar, Subodh
Debnath, A. K.
Aswal, D. K.
 
Subject Physical Chemistry
Materials Science
Applied Physics/Condensed Matter
 
Description A cost effective solution assembly method has been explored for preparing zinc(II) 1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11,15,16,17,18,22,23,24,25-hexa-decafluoro-29H, 31H-phthalocyanine/multi-walled carbon nanotubes (F16ZnPc/MWCNTs-COOH) hybrid. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Raman spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) investigations confirm the non-covalent anchoring of F16ZnPc onto MWCNTs-COOH through Pi-Pi stacking interactions. Further, a highly sensitive and selective chemiresistive Cl-2 sensor has been fabricated using F16ZnPc/MWCNTs-COOH hybrid. The response of sensor is found to be 21.28% for 2 ppm of Cl-2 with a response time of 14 s and theoretical detection limit of the sensor is found down to 0.06 ppb. The improved Cl-2 sensing characteristics of hybrid are found to be originated from the synergetic interaction between F16ZnPc and MWCNTs-COOH. The underlying mechanism for improved gas sensing performance of F16ZnPc/MWCNTs-COOH sensor towards Cl-2 has been explained using Raman, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) studies.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2018-01-01
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Identifier http://npl.csircentral.net/3931/1/Non-covalently%20anchored.pdf
Sharma, Anshul Kumar and Mahajan, Aman and Bedi, R. K. and Kumar, Subodh and Debnath, A. K. and Aswal, D. K. (2018) Non-covalently anchored multi-walled carbon nanotubes with hexa-decafluorinated zinc phthalocyanine as ppb level chemiresistive chlorine sensor. Applied Surface Science, 427 (A). 202-209 . ISSN 0169-4332
 
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