Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Inorganic Micro/Nanomaterial Additives on Polyaniline Based NH₃ Gas Sensor Performance

Abstract:

Nowadays conducting polymer based nanocomposites become promising materials for various field of applications like energy harvesting, electronics, and gas sensing devices. This work focuses on the meta-analysis of the effect of different inorganic micro/nano-material additives on polyaniline (PAni) based nanocomposite for ammonia (NH₃) gas sensor application at room temperature. The considered NH₃ sensors performance parameters are sensitivity, limit of detection (LOD), response time, and recovery time. These parameters show a significant change when inorganic materials like graphene, metal oxides and ternary hybrid materials are mixed with PAni as compared to pure PAni due to the synergetic effect of the micro/nano hybrid combination. The changes in the sensitivity, LOD, response time, and recovery time are elaborated by considering different inorganic micro/nano-material additives in PAni in the framework of pure PAni as a reference point. It is found from analysis that a micro/nano additive in the PAni matrix serve as catalyst and create more active sites in the system, which improves the sensitivity in the range of 23-130 times and LOD is highly reduced by 10^-1 to 10^-3 order when compared with the sensitivity and LOD of pure PAni. Hence these additives in PAni-based nanocomposite are very crucial and make nanocomposite cost-effective compared to conventional NH₃ gas sensors while working at room temperature.

• Periodical: Nano Hybrids and Composites (Volume 43)
• Pages: 47-56
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-jJ3Tco
• Online since: April 2024
• Authors: Bantalem Yitayew Dessie, Himanshu Panjiar*, Brainerd S.S. Daniel
• Keywords: Ammonia Gas, Nanocomposite, Pani, Performance Parameters

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