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It has been shown that devices can be fabricated using electronically conducting organic polymers for the ambient temperature detection of several industrially important gases. In particular the resistance of thin films of polypyrrole has been shown to increase in the presence of 0.1% ammonia in air and to decrease in the presence of 0.1% nitrogen dioxide and 0.1% hydrogen sulphide. Devices based on conducting polymers may thus offer advantages in environmental monitoring over presently available semiconductor sensors which generally operate at elevated temperatures.
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Miasik, J.J., Hooper, A., Moseley, P.T., Tofield, B.C. (1987). Electronically Conducting Polymer Gas Sensors. In: Alcácer, L. (eds) Conducting Polymers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3907-3_17
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