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Hydrogen Production and Utilization in a Membrane Reactor
Published on: March 10, 2023
Room Temperature Hydrogen Gas Sensing via Reversible Hydrogenation of Electrochemically Deposited Polycarbazole on
Agnieszka Stolarczyk1, Tomasz Jarosz2,3, Marcin Procek4
1Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, Silesian University of Technology, 9 Strzody Street, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland. Agnieszka.Stolarczyk@polsl.pl.
Abstract:
In this study, polycarbazole (PCz) is presented as a receptor structure for chemoresistive hydrogen sensors. The fabrication of the proposed sensors via electropolymerisation of PCz on interdigitated Pt electrodes is an inexpensive, cost-efficient, and repeatable method. Preliminary results presented in this work show that PCz-based sensors are sensitive to hydrogen gas in the range of 1⁻4% in air at room temperature. Notably, responses are both relatively high (from approximately 280% for 1% of H₂) and rapid (response and recovery times for 1% H₂ from 5 s and up to 32 s, respectively). Results of PCz structures on Pt and Au electrodes prove that the application of Pt electrodes is crucial for observation of sensing effect. A sensing mechanism based on reversible hydrogenation of PCz is proposed to explain the sensor operating principles.
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