TY - JOUR
T1 - MOFs for the Sensitive Detection of Ammonia: Deployment of fcu-MOF Thin-Films as Effective Chemical Capacitive Sensors.
AU - Assen, Ayalew Hussen Assen
AU - Yassine, Omar
AU - Shekhah, Osama
AU - Eddaoudi, Mohamed
AU - Salama, Khaled N.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank Dr Y. Belmabkhout, Dr. H. Omran, and Mr C. Sapsanis for their technical support and helpful advice. This work was partially sponsored by the Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials (AMPM) FCC project, FCC/1/1972-05-01.
PY - 2017/8/28
Y1 - 2017/8/28
N2 - This work reports on the fabrication and deployment of a select metal-organic framework (MOF) thin film as an advanced chemical capacitive sensor for the sensing/detection of ammonia (NH3) at room temperature. Namely, the MOF thin film sensing layer consists of a rare-earth (RE) MOF (RE-fcu-MOF) deposited on a capacitive interdigitated electrode (IDE). Purposely, the chemically stable naphthalene-based RE-fcu-MOF (NDC-Y-fcu-MOF) was elected and prepared/arranged as a thin film on a pre-functionalized capacitive IDE via the solvothermal growth method. Unlike earlier realizations, the fabricated MOF-based sensor showed a notable detection sensitivity for NH3 at concentrations down to 1 ppm, with a detection limit appraised to be around 100 ppb (at room temperature) even in the presence of humidity and/or CO2. Distinctly, the NDC-Y-fcu-MOF based sensor exhibited the required stability to NH3, in contract to other reported MOFs, and a remarkable detection selectivity towards NH3 vs. CH4, NO2, H2 and C7H8. The NDC-Y-fcu-MOF based sensor exhibited excellent performance for sensing ammonia for simulated breathing system in the presence of the mixture of carbon dioxide and/or humidity (water vapor), with no major alteration in the detection signal.
AB - This work reports on the fabrication and deployment of a select metal-organic framework (MOF) thin film as an advanced chemical capacitive sensor for the sensing/detection of ammonia (NH3) at room temperature. Namely, the MOF thin film sensing layer consists of a rare-earth (RE) MOF (RE-fcu-MOF) deposited on a capacitive interdigitated electrode (IDE). Purposely, the chemically stable naphthalene-based RE-fcu-MOF (NDC-Y-fcu-MOF) was elected and prepared/arranged as a thin film on a pre-functionalized capacitive IDE via the solvothermal growth method. Unlike earlier realizations, the fabricated MOF-based sensor showed a notable detection sensitivity for NH3 at concentrations down to 1 ppm, with a detection limit appraised to be around 100 ppb (at room temperature) even in the presence of humidity and/or CO2. Distinctly, the NDC-Y-fcu-MOF based sensor exhibited the required stability to NH3, in contract to other reported MOFs, and a remarkable detection selectivity towards NH3 vs. CH4, NO2, H2 and C7H8. The NDC-Y-fcu-MOF based sensor exhibited excellent performance for sensing ammonia for simulated breathing system in the presence of the mixture of carbon dioxide and/or humidity (water vapor), with no major alteration in the detection signal.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625366
UR - http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssensors.7b00304
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85029821452&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1021/acssensors.7b00304
DO - 10.1021/acssensors.7b00304
M3 - Article
C2 - 28809112
SN - 2379-3694
VL - 2
SP - 1294
EP - 1301
JO - ACS Sensors
JF - ACS Sensors
IS - 9
ER -