Abstract
Polythiophenes and, in particular, poly(3-alkylthiophenes) have attracted much interest as VOCs sensing materials due to their good environmental stability, easy processability and their particular sensing ability. In this work, the potentiality of a particular class of polythiophenes, the highly regioregular poly[3-(4-alkoxyphenyl)thiophenes], has been investigated as VOCs sensor. This class of polymers showed long term stability under room temperature operation, very high sensitivity towards hydrocarbons and low response time.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR) for financial support as part of Public-Private Laboratory TRIPODE (Technologies and Research for the application of polymers in electronics devices).
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Massera, E. et al. (2011). Poly[3-(4-Alkoxyphenyl)thiophenes] Based Chemical Sensors. In: Neri, G., Donato, N., d'Amico, A., Di Natale, C. (eds) Sensors and Microsystems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1324-6_5
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