Issue 7, 2023

A humidity-resistant and room temperature carbon soot@ZIF-67 composite sensor for acetone vapour detection

Abstract

Zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67), carbon nanoparticles (CNPs), and the CNPs@ZIF-67 composite were prepared and used to fabricate sensors for the detection of acetone vapour. The prepared materials were characterized using transmission electron microscopy, powder X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. The sensors were tested using an LCR meter under the resistance parameter. It was found that the ZIF-67 sensor did not respond at room temperature, the CNP sensor had a non-linear response to all analytes, and the CNPs/ZIF-67 sensor had an excellent linear response to acetone vapour and was less sensitive to 3-pentanone, 4-methyl-1-hexene, toluene and cyclohexane vapours. However, it was found that ZIF-67 improves carbon soot sensor sensitivity by 155 times, wherein the sensitivity of the carbon soot sensor and carbon soot@ZIF-67 sensor on acetone vapour was found to be 0.0004 and 0.062 respectively. In addition, the sensor was found to be insensitive to humidity and the limit of detection was 484 ppb at room temperature.

Graphical abstract: A humidity-resistant and room temperature carbon soot@ZIF-67 composite sensor for acetone vapour detection

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 jan. 2023
Accepted
16 feb. 2023
First published
16 feb. 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 1956-1969

A humidity-resistant and room temperature carbon soot@ZIF-67 composite sensor for acetone vapour detection

L. Malepe, T. D. Ndinteh, P. Ndungu and M. A. Mamo, Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 1956 DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00050H

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