The thermal conductivities of dimethyl sulfoxide + ethanol, dimethyl sulfoxide + water, and dimethyl sulfoxide + ethanol + water were reported. The measurements, covering a temperature range from (278.15 to 338.15) K were performed by a transient hot-wire technique over the whole concentration range at atmospheric pressure. The experimental data of thermal conductivity were correlated by the second-order Scheffépolynomial in terms of temperature and weight fraction. The average absolute deviation of those correlated values from the experimental data was 1.35 %. The uncertainty of thermal conductivity was ± 2.0 % with a coverage factor of k = 2.
A mid-infrared (mid-IR)
sensor chip was demonstrated for volatile
organic compound (VOC) detection. The sensor consisted of As2Se3 optical waveguides built by microelectronic fabrication
processes. The VOC sensing performance was characterized by measuring
acetone and ethanol vapors at their characteristic C–H absorption
from λ = 3.40 to 3.50 μm. Continuous VOC detection with
<5 s response time was achieved by measuring the intensity attenuation
of the waveguide mode. The miniaturized noninvasive VOC sensor can
be applied to breath analysis and environmental toxin monitoring.
This work focuses on the development of nanoparticle-based layer-by-layer (LbL) coatings for enhancing the detection sensitivity and selectivity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using on-chip mid-infrared (MIR) waveguides (WGs). First, we demonstrate construction of conformal coatings of polymer/mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) on the surface of Si-based WGs using the LbL technique and evaluate the coating deposition conditions, such as pH and substrate withdrawal speed, on the thickness and homogeneity of the assemblies. We then use the modified WGs to achieve enhanced sensitivity and selectivity of polar organic compounds, such as ethanol, versus non-polar ones, such as methane, in the MIR region. In addition, using density functional theory calculations, we show that such an improvement in sensing performance is achieved due to preferential adsorption of ethanol molecules within MSNs in the vicinity of the WG evanescent field.
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