Journal
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
Volume 251, Issue -, Pages 590-600Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2017.05.074
Keywords
Diamino diphenyl sulfone urea; QCM formaldehyde sensor; Sensing mechanism; Humidity-resistance; Dry-gel
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61371021, 61527818]
- Shanghai Municipal Education Commission
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The work designs a novel hydrophobic organic dry-gel named diamino diphenyl sulfone (DDS) urea for selectively detecting formaldehyde in air. It is synthesized by using octadecylisothiocyanate and diamino diphenyl sulfone as reactants in tetrahydrofuran solution at 70 degrees C. The dry-gel is obtained by freezing drying. Sulfanilamide urea dry-gel acts as the contrastive material which is synthesized in a similar condition. The dry-gel coated Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) sensor exhibits a rapid and reversible selective response towards formaldehyde gas. Repeated measurement results show high sensitivity and low detection limit (1 ppm) for formaldehyde detection. The gas sensing and contact angle tests indicate its stability under different humidity conditions. Based on the adsorption isotherm experiments, it reveals that adsorption enthalpy change between DDS urea dry-gel and HCHO molecules locates the range of chemical adsorption, endowing the sensor satisfactory selectivity and reversibility. Sensing mechanism of formaldehyde sensor has been proved by a simulation calculation based on a quantum chemistry software Gaussian though comparing the interaction between amine group or carbamido and formaldehyde. The calculation results reveal that Schiff base interaction between the amine group and aldehyde group is more responsible for formaldehyde sensing instead of hydrogen bond interaction between carbamido and aldehyde group. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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