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Published May 31, 2005 | Supplemental Material
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Detection and Classification of Volatile Organic Amines and Carboxylic Acids Using Arrays of Carbon Black-Dendrimer Composite Vapor Detectors

Abstract

Carbon black-insulator composite chemiresistive vapor detectors have been prepared using dendrimers as the polymeric constituent of the composite. Amino-terminated dendrimer-carbon black composites exhibited an enhancement in detection sensitivity of ∼10^3 for volatile carboxylic acids as compared to nondendrimeric insulating polymer-carbon black composites. Similarly, protonated carboxylato-terminated and protonated amino-terminated dendrimer-carbon black composites showed an ∼10^3−10^4 increase in sensitivity for detection of volatile amines relative to the response of nondendrimeric insulating polymer-carbon black composites. The protonated amino-terminated dendrimer carbon black composite detectors exhibited a signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of 22.4 ± 0.9 upon exposure to 2.7 ppb of butylamine in air, whereas poly(ethylene oxide)-carbon black composites exhibited a S/N of 3.5 ± 1.2 at 54 ppm of butylamine. The protonated amino-terminated dendrimer-carbon black detectors additionally exhibited relatively small responses to water vapor. Compositional diversity in an array of protonated amino-terminated dendrimeric vapor detectors was obtained by varying the type and generation of the dendrimer, and the type and concentration of the acid dopant. Fifteen analytes chosen from primary amines, branched amines, anilines, and non-amine organic analyte vapors were all robustly discriminated from each other by their different response patterns on the dendrimer-containing detector array. The signals produced by these 15 analytes additionally clustered into groups based on the chemical class of the analyte.

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© 2005 American Chemical Society. Received 31 March 2004. Published online 7 May 2005. Published in print 1 May 2005. The authors thank Mr. Brian Sisk for valuable discussion and assistance. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the NSF.

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