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Chemiresistive sensor-based Metal Organic Framework-reduced Graphene Oxide (Cu-BTC@rGO) nanocomposite for the detection of Ammonia.
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1  RUSA Center for Advanced Sensor Technology, Department of Physics, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (MS) - 431 004, India.
2  Department of Food Science and Technology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gyeongsan, 38541, South Korea
3  Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi 110 067, India
4  Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Academic Editor: Marco Frasconi

Abstract:

The detection of ammonia is very crucial for the welfare of modern society because of its hazardous effect on the environment and human beings. High response time is one of the serious concerns of most of the ammonia detector reported so far in the literature. This issue has been comprehensively addressed in the present investigation. Herein, the solvothermally synthesized Cu-BTC was combined with the 5 wt%, 10 wt% and 20 wt% of partially reduced graphene oxide (rGO). The structural, spectroscopic, morphological and electrical studies of as-synthesized CuBTC@rGO-5wt%, CuBTC@rGO-10wt% and CuBTC@rGO-20wt% were done by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy and current-voltage (I-V) characterization. The chemiresistive sensor based on Cu-BTC@rGO was developed on a copper-coated glass electrode via the shadow mask technique. It shows excellent sensing properties for CuBTC@rGO-10wt% in a range of 10 ppm to 80 ppm with high stability up to 30 days, good linearity and excellent response/recovery time, i.e., 84 sec and 125 sec, respectively. The limit of detection has been established as 10 ppm, which is below the maximum residue limit established by OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration). Keywords: Cu-BTC, Graphene, Ammonia, Chemiresistive.

Keywords: Graphene; Reduced Graphene Oxide, Metal-Organic Framework; Chemiresistive; Ammonia
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