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Relative humidity sensing properties of doped polyaniline-encased multiwall carbon nanotubes: wearable and flexible human respiration monitoring application

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Relative humidity (RH) sensors have been fabricated with polyaniline-encased multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) matrix. MWCNT matrices were grown on oxidized Si substrates by catalytic chemical vapour deposition technique. The MWCNT matrices were made hydrophilic by acid treatment. The sensing properties of MWCNTs were improved by encasing the acid-treated MWCNT matrix with PANI. PANI was synthesized via in situ chemical oxidation technique using three acid dopants, named as 5-sulfosalicylic acid, 4-nitrobenzoic acid and hydrochloric acid (HCl). A growth time variation of the PANI was also performed from 1.5 to 2.5 h. The time-varying sensor resistance was recorded with RH change, and RH sensing properties of the corresponding sensors were investigated with the measured data. Doping variation exhibited that CNT–PANI sensor, fabricated with HCl dopant, showed the highest response (42.6% at 90% RH). Synthesis time variation of PANI from 1.5 to 2.5 h exhibited that with an increase in synthesis time, the sensor responsivities degraded from 42.6 to 19.5% at 90% RH. Excellent repeatability, linear response behaviour (R2 = 0.992), low hysteresis loss (± 2.68%) were exhibited by the fabricated RH sensing devices. A facile transfer technology was developed in order to transfer the MWCNT on PET substrate for fabrication of flexible RH sensor. A practical application on human respiration monitoring was demonstrated with the wearable and flexible RH sensors. The humidity sensing mechanism and electron transfer process were schematically explained with the aid of energy band diagram.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge Department of Science and Technology (DST), India (DST SERB Grant No. EMR/2014/001001), for their financial support to the research. Further, the authors wish to gratefully acknowledge Dr. M. N. Dastur School of Materials Science and Engineering, IIEST, Shibpur, for providing the two characterization facilities UV–Vis and FTIR. The authors would also like to thank Dr. M. K. Bera, IIEST, Shibpur, for his advice and comments.

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    Soumalya Kundu, Rahul Majumder, Ria Ghosh, Monalisa Pradhan, Dipali Banerjee & Manish Pal Chowdhury

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  4. Department of Materials Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, 700032, India

    Dibyendu Ghosh

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Kundu, S., Majumder, R., Ghosh, R. et al. Relative humidity sensing properties of doped polyaniline-encased multiwall carbon nanotubes: wearable and flexible human respiration monitoring application. J Mater Sci 55, 3884–3901 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-019-04276-z

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