Computational survey on the Pt-decorated ZnO nanosheet as a chemical sensor for chlorobenzene: Explaining the experimental observations

2022 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 110379
Author(s):  
Nai-Yuan Xu ◽  
Parvaneh Delir Kheirollahi Nezhad
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Sensor

scholarly journals Highly-Efficient Sulfonated UiO-66(Zr) Optical Fiber for Rapid Detection of Trace Levels of Pb2+

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 6053
Author(s):  
Marziyeh Nazari ◽  
Abbas Amini ◽  
Nathan T. Eden ◽  
Mikel C. Duke ◽  
Chun Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Fiber ◽  
Rapid Detection ◽  
Chemical Sensor ◽  
Metal Organic Framework ◽  
Aqueous System ◽  
Icp Oes ◽  
Efficient Detection ◽  
Low Concentrations ◽  
Fabry Perot ◽  
Metal Organic

Lead detection for biological environments, aqueous resources, and medicinal compounds, rely mainly on either utilizing bulky lab equipment such as ICP-OES or ready-made sensors, which are based on colorimetry with some limitations including selectivity and low interference. Remote, rapid and efficient detection of heavy metals in aqueous solutions at ppm and sub-ppm levels have faced significant challenges that requires novel compounds with such ability. Here, a UiO-66(Zr) metal-organic framework (MOF) functionalized with SO3H group (SO3H-UiO-66(Zr)) is deposited on the end-face of an optical fiber to detect lead cations (Pb2+) in water at 25.2, 43.5 and 64.0 ppm levels. The SO3H-UiO-66(Zr) system provides a Fabry–Perot sensor by which the lead ions are detected rapidly (milliseconds) at 25.2 ppm aqueous solution reflecting in the wavelength shifts in interference spectrum. The proposed removal mechanism is based on the adsorption of [Pb(OH2)6]2+ in water on SO3H-UiO-66(Zr) due to a strong affinity between functionalized MOF and lead. This is the first work that advances a multi-purpose optical fiber-coated functional MOF as an on-site remote chemical sensor for rapid detection of lead cations at extremely low concentrations in an aqueous system.

scholarly journals Identification and Quantification of Olive Oil Quality Parameters Using an Electronic Nose

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 674
Author(s):  
Nawaf Abu-Khalaf
Keyword(s):  
Olive Oil ◽  
Electronic Nose ◽  
Chemical Sensor ◽  
Chemical Constituents ◽  
Oil Quality ◽  
Quality Parameters ◽  
Signal Acquisition ◽  
Good Precision ◽  
Olive Oil Quality ◽  
Quality Categories

An electronic nose (EN), which is a kind of chemical sensor, was employed to check olive oil quality parameters. Fifty samples of olive oil, covering the four quality categories extra virgin, virgin, ordinary virgin and lampante, were gathered from different Palestinian cities. The samples were analysed chemically using routine tests and signals for each chemical were obtained using EN. Each signal acquisition represents the concentration of certain chemical constituents. Partial least squares (PLS) models were used to analyse both chemical and EN data. The results demonstrate that the EN was capable of modelling the acidity parameter with a good performance. The correlation coefficients of the PLS-1 model for acidity were 0.87 and 0.88 for calibration and validation sets, respectively. Furthermore, the values of the standard error of performance to standard deviation (RPD) for acidity were 2.61 and 2.68 for the calibration and the validation sets, respectively. It was found that two principal components (PCs) in the PLS-1 scores plot model explained 86% and 5% of EN and acidity variance, respectively. PLS-1 scores plot showed a high performance in classifying olive oil samples according to quality categories. The results demonstrated that EN can predict/model acidity with good precision. Additionally, EN was able to discriminate between diverse olive oil quality categories.

scholarly journals The frontiers of functionalized graphene-based nanocomposites as chemical sensors

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 330-369
Author(s):  
Norizan M. Nurazzi ◽  
Norli Abdullah ◽  
Siti Z. N. Demon ◽  
Norhana A. Halim ◽  
Ahmad F. M. Azmi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Mobility ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Chemical Sensor ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Ballistic Transport ◽  
Quantum Hall ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Thick Sheet ◽  
High Electron

Abstract Graphene is a single-atom-thick sheet of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms that are packed in a hexagonal honeycomb crystalline structure. This promising structure has endowed graphene with advantages in electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties such as room-temperature quantum Hall effect, long-range ballistic transport with around 10 times higher electron mobility than in Si and thermal conductivity in the order of 5,000 W/mK, and high electron mobility at room temperature (250,000 cm2/V s). Another promising characteristic of graphene is large surface area (2,630 m2/g) which has emerged so far with its utilization as novel electronic devices especially for ultrasensitive chemical sensor and reinforcement for the structural component applications. The application of graphene is challenged by concerns of synthesis techniques, and the modifications involved to improve the usability of graphene have attracted extensive attention. Therefore, in this review, the research progress conducted in the previous decades with graphene and its derivatives for chemical detection and the novelty in performance enhancement of the chemical sensor towards the specific gases and their mechanism have been reviewed. The challenges faced by the current graphene-based sensors along with some of the probable solutions and their future improvements are also being included.

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