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Title:Models for sensing by nanowire networks: application to organic vapour detection by multiwall carbon nanotube-DNA films
Author(s):Ali SB; Oshido AB; Houlton A; Horrocks BR;
Address:"Chemical Nanoscience Laboratories, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Bedson Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom. Department of Laser and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, 10066, Iraq. Department of Chemistry, Benue State University, Makurdi, 970222, Nigeria"
Journal Title:Nanotechnology
Year:2021
Volume:20211108
Issue:4
Page Number: -
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac2e20
ISSN/ISBN:1361-6528 (Electronic) 0957-4484 (Linking)
Abstract:"Electronic sensors for volatile organic compounds have been prepared by drop-casting dispersions of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) in aqueous solutions oflambda-DNA onto Pt microband electrodes. The MWCNTs themselves show a metal-like temperature dependence of the conductance, but the conductance of DNA/MWCNT composites has an activated component that corresponds to inter-tube tunneling. The resistance of the composite was modelled by a series combination of a term linear in temperature for the nanotubes and a stretched exponential form for the inter-tube junctions. The resistance may increase or decrease with temperature according to the composition and may be tuned to be almost temperature-independent at 67% by mass of DNA. Upon exposure to organic vapours, the resistance of the composites increases and the time-dependence of this signal is consistent with diffusion of the vapour into the composite. The fractional change in resistance at steady-state provides an analytical signal with a linear calibration and the presence of DNA enhances the signal and adjusts the selectivity in favour of polar analytes. The temperature dependence of the signal is determined by the enthalpy of adsorption of the analyte in the inter-tube junctions and may be satisfactorily modelled using the Langmuir isotherm. Temperature and pressure-dependent studies indicate that neither charge injection by oxidation/reduction of the analyte nor condensation of analyte on the device is responsible for the signal. We suggest that the origin of the sensing response is an adsorption of the analyte in the inter-tube regions that modulates the tunneling barriers. This suggests a general route to tuning the selectivity of MWCNT gas sensors using non-conductive polymers of varying chemical functionality"
Keywords:DNA conductance nanotubes sensing volatile organics;
Notes:"PubMed-not-MEDLINEAli, Shams B Oshido, Atsinafe B Houlton, Andrew Horrocks, Benjamin R eng England 2021/10/09 Nanotechnology. 2021 Nov 8; 33(4). doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac2e20"

 
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