Soad Ahmed
Fabrication of Humidity-Resistant Optical Fiber Sensor for Ammonia Sensing Using Diazo Resin-Photocrosslinked Films with a Porphyrin-Polystyrene Binary Mixture
Ahmed, Soad; Park, Yeawon; Okuda, Hirofumi; Ono, Shoichiro; Korposh, Sergiy; Lee, Seung-Woo
Authors
Yeawon Park
Hirofumi Okuda
Shoichiro Ono
SERHIY KORPOSH S.Korposh@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Photonics Instrumentation
Seung-Woo Lee
Abstract
Ammonia gas sensors were fabricated via layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition of diazo resin (DAR) and a binary mixture of tetrakis(4-sulfophenyl)porphine (TSPP) and poly(styrene sulfonate) (PSS) onto the core of a multimode U-bent optical fiber. The penetration of light transferred into the evanescent field was enhanced by stripping the polymer cladding and coating the fiber core. The electrostatic interaction between the diazonium ion in DAR and the sulfonate residues in TSPP and PSS was converted into covalent bonds using UV irradiation. The photoreaction between the layers was confirmed by UV-vis and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The sensitivity of the optical fiber sensors to ammonia was linear when exposed to ammonia gases generated from aqueous ammonia solutions at a concentration of approximately 17 parts per million (ppm). This linearity extended up to 50 ppm when the exposure time (30 s) was shortened. The response and recovery times were reduced to 30 s with a 5-cycle DAR/TSPP+PSS (as a mixture of 1 mM TSPP and 0.025 wt% PSS in water) film sensor. The limit of detection (LOD) of the optimized sensor was estimated to be 0.31 ppm for ammonia in solution, corresponding to approximately 0.03 ppm of ammonia gas. It is hypothesized that the presence of the hydrophobic moiety of PSS in the matrix suppressed the effects of humidity on the sensor response. The sensor response was stable and reproducible over seven days. The PSS-containing U-bent fiber sensor also showed superior sensitivity to ammonia when examined alongside amine and non-amine analytes.
Citation
Ahmed, S., Park, Y., Okuda, H., Ono, S., Korposh, S., & Lee, S.-W. (2021). Fabrication of Humidity-Resistant Optical Fiber Sensor for Ammonia Sensing Using Diazo Resin-Photocrosslinked Films with a Porphyrin-Polystyrene Binary Mixture. Sensors, 21(18), Article 6176. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21186176
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 19, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 15, 2021 |
Publication Date | Sep 2, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Jul 6, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 16, 2021 |
Journal | Sensors |
Electronic ISSN | 1424-8220 |
Publisher | MDPI |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 21 |
Issue | 18 |
Article Number | 6176 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/s21186176 |
Keywords | Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Biochemistry; Instrumentation; Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Analytical Chemistry; Ammonia detection; Layer-by-layer; U-bent optical fiber; porphyrin; poly(styrene sul- fonate), Diazo resin; Photocrosslin |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5759283 |
Publisher URL | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/18/6176 |
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