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Plasma Polymers Applied to Chemical Sensing

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Plasmas and Polymers

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The paper describes attempts to apply plasma polymers to the development of chemical sensors. The plasma polymers were used as membranes to coat conventional conducting polymer sensors, as stand-alone chemiresistive sensors and as absorbent coatings on quartz crystal microbalances. The plasma polymers were derived from combinations of pyrrole and three silicon containing monomers. In the chemiresistive sensors, conductivity was induced in the polymer matrix by doping with iodine. The paper describes the experimental polymerization conditions, the physical characteristics of the polymers, and the application of the different polymers to sensing common volatile analytes.

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  1. Industrial Research Ltd., Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    Ashton Partridge

  2. Industrial Research Ltd., Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    Paul Harris

  3. National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Ibaraki, Japan

    Toshihiro Hirotsu & Shigeru Kurosawa

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Partridge, A., Harris, P., Hirotsu, T. et al. Plasma Polymers Applied to Chemical Sensing. Plasmas and Polymers 5, 191–200 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011337229967

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