Polymer/Nanostructured Carbon Composite Characterization for Usage as Voc Vapour Sensor

International Conference "Functional Materials and Nanotechnologies 2017": Book of Abstracts 2017
Santa Rekšņa, Gita Šakale, Astrīda Bērziņa, Māris Knite

In this research polymer nanostructured carbon composites as VOC (volatile organic compounds) vapour sensors are going to be developed and investigated. Composites will be composed using ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA; Sigma Aldrich) and highly structured carbon nanoparticles (CB; PRINTEX XE-2) with average primary particle size 30 nm. EVA is chosen because of its partial polarity: ethylene is non-polar and vinyl acetate part is polar polymer, so this points the composites ability to detect both polar and non-polar VOC vapours.

Keywords
VOC (volatile organic compounds) sensors, polymer-nanostructured carbon composites, benzene detection.

Stepiņa, S., Šakale, G., Bērziņa, A., Knite, M. Polymer/Nanostructured Carbon Composite Characterization for Usage as Voc Vapour Sensor. In: International Conference "Functional Materials and Nanotechnologies 2017": Book of Abstracts, Estonia, Tartu, 24-27 April, 2017. Tartu: 2017, pp.128-128. ISBN 978-9985-4-1030-1.

Publication language
English (en)