Review—Conducting Polymers as Chemiresistive Gas Sensing Materials: A Review

By Yung Cheng Wong, Bee Chin Ang, Abdul Haseeb, Aainaa Aqilah Baharuddin, Yew Hoong Wong. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2019

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Detection of harmful gases is important to ensure human and environmental health. Industrial waste gases such as CO, NO2, H2S, and NH3 are of typical focus among researchers over the years. Chemiresistive sensors are suitable for detecting these harmful gases. One suitable candidate material for this sensor is the conducting polymer, which offers the advantage of room-temperature operation. This review focuses on the overall development of conducting polymer as chemiresistive sensing materials. Effects of different parameters influencing sensor performance such as response, gas concentration, response time, and recovery time of conducting polymers are explored. Different conducting polymers are compared and their affinities to specific gases are determined. An understanding of pure conducting polymers assists further exploration of these polymers in composite form. A comprehensive understanding based on an overview of literature will facilitate researchers in selecting appropriate conducting polymers for different gas sensing applications and is expected to encourage further progress in this area. © The Author(s) 2019. Published by ECS. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse of the work in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. [DOI: 10.1149/2.0032003JES]

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics

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