EP1676282A2 - Use of conductive or semi-conductive polymers in chemical sensors for detecting nitro compounds - Google Patents
Use of conductive or semi-conductive polymers in chemical sensors for detecting nitro compoundsInfo
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- the present invention relates to the use of electrically conductive or semiconductor polymers as sensitive materials of resistive and gravimetric sensors intended to detect nitro compounds, and in particular nitroaromatic compounds such as nitrobenzene, dinitrobenzene (DNB), dinitrotoluene (DNT), 2, 4, 6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and the like.
- nitroaromatic compounds such as nitrobenzene, dinitrobenzene (DNB), dinitrotoluene (DNT), 2, 4, 6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and the like.
- Such sensors are useful for the detection of explosives, whether to ensure the security of public places such as airports, to control the legality of goods in circulation in a territory, to fight against terrorism, to carry out disarmament operations, locate anti-personnel mines or clean up industrial or military sites. They are also useful for protecting the environment, in particular for controlling and monitoring atmospheric pollution and the quality of more or less confined atmospheres, as well as for monitoring for security purposes, industrial
- the size of the devices they use, their energy consumption and their implementation costs preclude the development of easily transportable and autonomous detection systems and, therefore, suitable for use on any type of sites.
- the development of sensors capable of detecting species in real time gaseous chemicals is booming.
- the operation of these sensors is based on the use of a film of a sensitive material, that is to say of a material of which at least one physical property is modified in contact with the desired gas molecules, which has a system able to measure in real time any variation of this physical property and thus highlight the presence of the desired gas molecules.
- the subject of the invention is the use of at least one electrically conductive or semi-conductive polymer as a sensitive material in a resistive or gravimetric sensor intended to detect one or more nitro compounds chosen from the group consisting of nitroaromatic compounds, nitramines, nitrosamines and nitric esters.
- nitroaromatic compounds chosen from the group consisting of nitroaromatic compounds, nitramines, nitrosamines and nitric esters.
- polymer "conductor” of electricity a polymer whose electrical conductivity is at least equal to 10 2 siemens / cm at room temperature
- polymer "semi -conductive "of electricity a polymer whose electrical conductivity is between about 10 " 10 and 10 2 siemens / cm at room temperature.
- the conductive or semiconductor polymer is preferably a conjugated polymer which is chosen from the polymers corresponding to formulas (I), (II), (III), (IV) and (V) below:
- n is an integer ranging from 5 to 100,000 while Ri, R 2 , R 3 and R 4 represent, independently of each other: a hydrogen or halogen atom, a methyl group, - a chain linear, branched or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated, comprising from 2 to 100 carbon atoms and optionally one or more several heteroatoms and / or one or more chemical functions comprising at least one heteroatom, and / or one or more aromatic or heteroaromatic groups substituted or not, a chemical function comprising at least one heteroatom, or alternatively - an aromatic or heteroaromatic group substituted or not .
- R 1f R 2 , R 3 and / or R 4 represent a C 1 to C 10 hydrocarbon chain and this comprises one or more hetero atoms and / or one or more chemical functions and / or one or more aromatic or hetero-aromatic groups, then these atoms, these functions and these groups can as well form a bridge inside this chain as they can be carried laterally by it or even be located at its end.
- the heteroatom (s) may be any atom other than a carbon or hydrogen atom such as, for example, an oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, fluorine, chlorine, phosphorus, boron atom or else of silicon.
- the chemical function (s) can in particular be chosen from the functions -COOH, -COOR 5 , -CHO, -CO -, - OH, -OR 5 , -SH, -SR 5 , -S0 2 R 5 , -NH 2 , -NHR 5 , -NR 5 R 6 , -C0NH 2 , -CONHR5, -C0NR 5 R 6 , -C (X) 3 , -OC (X) 3 , -COX, -CN, -C00CH0 and -C00C0R 5 in which: R 5 represents a hydrocarbon group, linear, branched or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated, comprising 1 to 100 carbon atoms, or a covalent bond in the case where said chemical function or functions form a bridge in a C 2 to C 10 hydrocarbon chain .
- R 6 represents a hydrocarbon group, linear, branched or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated comprising from 1 to 100 carbon atoms, this group being able to be identical or different from the hydrocarbon group represented by R 5 , while • X represents an atom of halogen, for example a fluorine, chlorine or bromine atom.
- the aromatic group or groups may be any hydrocarbon group comprising one or more unsaturated C 3 to C 6 rings and comprising conjugated double bonds such as, for example, a cyclopentadienyl, phenyl, benzyl, biphenyl, phenylacetylenyl, pyrene or anthracene group, while that the heteroaromatic group or groups can be any aromatic group as just defined, but comprising, in at least one of the rings which constitute it, one or more heteroatoms such as, for example, a furanyl, pyrrolyl group , thiophenyl, oxazolyle, pyrazolyle, thiazolyle, imidazolyle, triazolyle, pyridinyle, pyranyl, quinolineyl, pyrazinyle or pyrimidinyle.
- poly (3 -alkylthiophenes) useful according to the invention include poly (3-butylthiophene), poly (3-hexylthiophene), poly (3-octylthiophene), poly (3-decylthiophene) or also poly (3-dodecylt iophene).
- These polymers can be obtained either from companies which market them - which is, for example, the case for a certain number of poly (3-alkylthiophenes) which are available from the company Sigma-Aldrich - or by oxidative polymerization, enzymatic, electrochemical or other, of the corresponding monomers.
- Polyanilines can also be obtained by protonation of emeraldine base, for example by means of an acid as widely described in the literature. Furthermore, whatever the intrinsic conductivity of these polymers, that is to say the conductivity which they exhibit outside of any particular treatment, it is possible to subject them to doping and / or dedoping reactions. so as to adjust this conductivity to a value predetermined according to the type of sensor in which they are intended to serve as sensitive material and nitro compounds to be detected.
- These doping reactions can be carried out using, for example, an acid such as hydrochloric acid, camphor sulfonic acid, p-toluenesulfonic acid or 3-nitrobenzenesulfonic acid; a salt such as iron chloride, nitrosyl trifluoroborate, the sodium salt of anthraquinone-2-sulfonic acid, the sodium salt of 4-octylbenzenesulfonic acid, lithium perchlorate or tetra perchlorate -n-butylammonium; a halogen such as iodine or bromine; an alkali metal such as sodium, potassium or rubidium; and, more generally, by means of any acid or oxidizing agent.
- an acid such as hydrochloric acid, camphor sulfonic acid, p-toluenesulfonic acid or 3-nitrobenzenesulfonic acid
- a salt such as iron chloride, nitrosyl trifluoroborate,
- dedoping reactions can be carried out using any base or reducing agent such as ammonia or phenylhydrazine.
- the conductivity of a weakly conductive polymer can also be adjusted by adding a polymer with higher conductivity.
- the conductive or semi-conductive polymer can also be a polymer which is synthesized in a doped form, that is to say which is obtained by polymerization of monomers previously bonded chemically to a doping agent such as, for example.
- aniline monomers each coupled to a sulfonic camphor acid molecule or thiophene monomers each coupled to a molecule of a polysulfonate of the polystyrene sulfonate or polyacrylate sulfonate type.
- the conductive or semiconductor polymer is advantageously in the form of a thin film which covers one or both sides of a substrate suitably chosen according to the physical property of the sensitive material whose variations are intended to be measured by this sensor.
- the conductive or semi-conductive polymer can also be in a massive form such as, for example, a cylinder having a certain porosity so as to make all the molecules of the polymer accessible to the nitrated compounds.
- a thin film When it is in the form of a thin film, the latter preferably has a thickness of 10 angstroms to 100 microns.
- Such a film can be obtained by any of the techniques proposed to date for producing a thin film on the surface of a substrate, for example: by spraying, by spin coating ("spin coating" in English).
- thin films of poly (3-alkylthiophenes) produced by spinning deposition have been found to have an electrical conductivity very much higher than that of films of similar thickness but obtained by spraying. We therefore favor a deposition technique rather than another depending on the level of conductivity that we want to give the thin film.
- the substrate and the sensor measurement system are chosen according to the physical property of the sensitive material, the variations induced by the presence of nitro compounds are intended to be measured by the sensor. In the present case, the variations of two physical properties have proved to be particularly interesting to measure. These are, on the one hand, variations in electrical conductivity, and, on the other hand, variations in mass.
- the sensor is a resistive sensor or a gravimetric sensor.
- quartz microbalance sensors By way of examples of gravimetric sensors, mention may be made of quartz microbalance sensors, surface wave sensors, better known under the English terminology “SA” for "Surface Acoustic Wave”, such as wave sensors. from Love and the Lamb wave sensors, as well as the microlevers.
- quartz microbalance sensors are more particularly preferred.
- This type of sensor schematically comprises a piezoelectric substrate (or resonator), generally a quartz crystal covered on its two faces with a metallic layer, for example d gold or platinum, and which is connected to two electrodes. Since the sensitive material covers one or both sides of the substrate, any variation in mass of this material results in a variation in the vibration frequency of the substrate.
- the invention it is possible to combine, within the same device or "multisensor", several resistive and / or gravimetric sensors comprising sensitive materials different from each other, or provided with substrates and measurement systems different from each other, the main thing being that at least one of these sensors comprises a conductive or semiconductor polymer. It is also possible to integrate one or more sensors into such a multisensor additional comprising a conductive or semiconductor or semiconductor polymer as defined above as a sensitive material, but designed to measure variations of a physical property other than electrical conductivity and mass such as, for example, variations of an optical property , especially fluorescence.
- nitro compound or compounds intended to be detected by the sensor are chosen from nitroaromatic compounds, nitramines, nitrosamines and nitric esters, these compounds being able to be present in solid, liquid or gaseous form (vapors) .
- nitroaromatic compounds include nitrobenzene, dinitrobenzene, trinitrobenzene, nitrotoluene, dinitrotoluene, trinitrotoluene, benzene dinitrofluoro- the dinitrotrifluorométhoxybenzène, the amino dinitrotoluene, dinitrotrifluoromethylbenzene the chlorodinitrotrifluorométhylbenzène, 1 hexanitrostilbene, trinitrophenylmethylnitramine (or tetryl) or trinitrophenol (or picric acid).
- nitramines are, for example, cyclotetramethylenetetranitramine (or octogen), cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (or hexogen) and tetryl, while the nitrosamines are, for example, nitrosodimethylamine.
- nitric esters these are, for example, pentrite, ethylene glycol dinitrate, diethylene glycol dinitrate, nitroglycerin or nitroguanidine.
- Resistive and gravimetric sensors comprising a conductive or semiconductor polymer as sensitive material, in accordance with the invention have been found to have many advantages, in particular: - an ability to detect nitro compounds with very high sensitivity since they are capable to detect their presence at concentrations of the order of ppm, or even lower, - an ability to selectively detect nitro compounds compared to other organic compounds, and in particular to other aromatic compounds such as toluene, - rapidity response and reproducibility of this response, - an ability to operate continuously, - a very satisfactory lifetime, the conductive and semiconductor polymers showing good resistance to aging, - a manufacturing cost compatible with a production of sensors in series, a very small amount of polymer (i.e.
- DNT dinitrotoluene
- TNT trinitrotoluene
- Figure 1 shows the evolution of the electric intensity (curve A) measured across a resistive sensor comprising a thin film of undoped polyaniline during an exposure cycle (curve B) of this sensor has DNTFMB vapors at a concentration of 3 ppm.
- Figure 2 shows the evolution of the electric intensity (curve A) measured across a resistive sensor comprising a thin film of polyaniline doped with camphor sulfonic acid, then partially dedoped by ammonia vapors, at during 3 cycles of exposure (curve B) of this sensor to DNTFMB vapors at a concentration of 3 ppm.
- FIG. 3 shows the evolution of the electrical intensity (curve A) measured across a resistive sensor comprising a thin film of poly (3-dodecylthiophene) during 3 exposure cycles (curve B) of this sensor DNTFMB vapors at a concentration of 3 ppm.
- FIG. 4 shows the evolution of the vibration frequency (curve A) of the quartz of a quartz microbalance sensor comprising a thin film of poly (3-dodecylthiophene) during 2 exposure cycles (curve B) of this sensor has DNTFMB vapors at a concentration of 3 ppm.
- FIG. 5 shows the evolution of the electric intensity measured at the terminals of a resistive sensor comprising a film of poly (3-dodecylthiophene) during 2 cycles of exposure of this sensor to DNTFMB vapors, followed by 4 cycles of exposure to vapors of dichloromethane, methyl ethyl ketone, toluene and ethanol respectively.
- Example 1 detection of DNTFMB by a resistive sensor comprising a thin film of partially doped polyaniline
- a resistive sensor comprising a thin film of partially doped polyaniline
- a resistive sensor comprising an insulating alumina substrate provided, on its upper face, with two measurement electrodes constituted by interdigitated combs platinum, the width of the tracks being 150 ⁇ m, and, on its underside, a heating electrode consisting of platinum.
- the face of the substrate carrying the measurement electrodes is covered with a thin film of partially doped polyaniline.
- polyaniline doped by polycondensation of aniline in an oxidizing medium is first prepared.
- This polycondensation is carried out by slowly pouring a solution of (NH 4 ) 2 S 2 0 8 in 1.5 M HCl at 100 g / 1 in a stirred reactor containing a solution of aniline in 1.5 M HCl at 100 g / 1 and leaving to react for 3 days at -40 ° C.
- the aniline / oxidant molar ratio is 1.
- the mixture is filtered and the polyaniline powder thus recovered is washed successively with water, methanol and ethyl ether.
- the polyaniline thus obtained is subjected to a partial dedoping with ammonia, leaving approximately 30 minutes and with stirring a suspension of polyaniline in methanol and a solution with 1 mol / 1 of ammonia.
- the mixture is again filtered and the polyaniline powder washed. It is then dissolved in N-methylpyrrolidinone at a concentration of 20 g / l.
- the polyaniline film is formed on the upper face of the alumina substrate by "drop -coating", that is to say by depositing on this substrate 3 times two drops of polyaniline solution and evaporating the N-methylpyrrolidinone after each deposit, by heating to 80 ° C.
- a partially doped polyaniline film having an electrical intensity of 44 microamperes ( ⁇ A) when a voltage of 1 volt is applied to it.
- a voltage of 1 volt being applied to the terminals of the sensor, the latter is subjected to a cycle of exposure to DNTFMB in the form of vapors, at room temperature, this cycle comprising a phase of exposure of 600 seconds to ambient air , followed by a 300-second exposure phase to DNTFMB at a concentration of 3 ppm, and again by a 900-second exposure phase to ambient air.
- Figure 1 shows the evolution of
- Example 2 detection of DNTFMB by a resistive sensor comprising a thin film of partially doped polyaniline
- a resistive sensor identical to that used in Example 1 is used, except that the thin film of partially doped polyaniline which covers the upper face of the substrate has an electrical intensity of 2.6 milliamps (mA) when a voltage of 1 volt is applied to it.
- the upper face of the substrate is, firstly, covered with a polyaniline film obtained by polycondensation of aniline in an oxidizing medium as described in Example 1, then doped with camphor sulfonic acid, then the assembly is subjected to ammonia vapors for 5 minutes to partially dedope the polyaniline.
- the doping of polyaniline with camphor sulfonic acid is carried out by mixing the latter with camphor sulfonic acid in a 2/1 molar ratio, then by dissolving this mixture in meta-cresol so as to obtain a solution at 0 , 3% by mass.
- the doped polyaniline film is formed on the upper face of the substrate by "drop -coating" (3 times 2 drops) from a solution containing 1.3 g / 1 of this polyaniline per liter of meta-cresol.
- the ammonia is generated by heating a 28% solution.
- a voltage of 1 volt being applied to the terminals of the sensor is subjected to three cycles of exposure to DNTFMB in the form of vapors, at room temperature: the first cycle comprising a phase of exposure of 2000 seconds to air ambient, followed by a 600-second exposure phase to the DNTFMB, and an exposure phase of 3900 seconds to ambient air, the second cycle comprising an exposure phase of 600 seconds to DNTFMB, followed by an exposure phase of 2300 seconds to ambient air, the third cycle comprising a phase of exposure of 600 seconds to DNTFMB, followed by a phase of exposure of 1500 seconds to ambient air, the concentration of DNTFMB being 3 ppm in all cases.
- Example 3 detection of DNTFMB by a resistive sensor comprising a thin film of poly (3-dodecylthiophene)
- a resistive sensor identical to that used in example 1 is used, except that the upper face of the substrate is covered with a thin film of poly (3-dodecylthiophene) having an electrical intensity of 7.4. nanoamps
- the poly (3-docedylthiophene) comes from the company SIGMA-ALDRICH (reference 450650). It has a molecular weight of 162,000 g / mole.
- the poly (3-dodecylthiophene) film is formed on the upper face of the substrate by "drop-coating" (3 times 2 drops) from a solution containing 10 g / 1 of this polymer per liter of chloroform, the latter being evaporated after each deposition by heating to 45 ° C.
- Example 4 detection of DNTFMB by a quartz microbalance sensor comprising a thin film of poly (3-dodecylthiophene)
- a quartz microbalance sensor comprising an AT cut quartz with a vibration frequency of 9 MHz covered two circular gold measuring electrodes (model QA9RA-50, AMETEK PRECISION INSTRUMENTS). The two sides of the device are covered with a thin film of poly (3-dodecylthiophene) about 0.5 ⁇ m thick.
- the poly (3-dodecylthiophene) comes from the company SIGMA-ALDRICH (reference 450650).
- the deposition of the poly (3-dodecylthiophene) film is carried out by carrying out on each face of the device nine sprays of 0.4 seconds of a solution of this polymer in chloroform of concentration equal to 5 g / 1.
- the variation in the vibration frequency of quartz due to this deposit is 10.3 kHz.
- the sensor is subjected to two cycles of exposure to DNTFMB in the form of vapors, at room temperature: - the first cycle comprising an exposure phase of 750 seconds to ambient air, followed by an exposure phase of 600 seconds to DNTFMB, and an exposure phase of 1400 seconds to ambient air, - the second cycle comprising an exposure phase of 600 seconds to DNTFMB, followed an exposure phase of 600 seconds to ambient air, the concentration of DNTFMB being 3 ppm in both cases.
- a resistive sensor identical to that used in Example 1 is used, except that the upper face of the substrate is covered with a film of poly (3-dodecylthiophene) deposited by spraying.
- poly (3-dodecylthiophene) SIGMA-ALDRICH, reference 450650
- nine sprays of 0.4 seconds of this solution are carried out on the upper face of the substrate in order to obtain a thin film having an electrical intensity of 29 nA when a voltage of 1 volt is applied to it.
- a DC voltage of 1 volt being applied to the terminals of the sensor is subjected to six cycles of exposure to organic compounds in the form of vapors comprising: - for the first, an exposure phase of 1700 seconds to ambient air, followed by an exposure phase of 600 seconds to DNTFMB at a concentration of 3 ppm, and an exposure phase of 5800 seconds to ambient air, - for the second, an exposure phase of 600 seconds to DNTFMB at a concentration of 3 ppm, followed by an exposure phase of 5400 seconds to ambient air, - for the third, an exposure phase of 600 seconds to dichloromethane at a concentration of 580,000 ppm, followed by an exposure phase of 520 seconds to ambient air, - for the fourth, an exposure phase of 600 seconds to methyl ethyl ketone at a concentration of 126,000 ppm, followed by an exposure phase of 520 seconds to ambient air, - for the fifth, an exposure phase of 600 seconds to toluene at a concentration of 38,000 ppm, followed by a
- FIG. 5 shows the evolution of the electric intensity (I), expressed in nA, as measured at the terminals of the sensor as a function of time (t), expressed in seconds, the arrow fl signaling the start of the 1st cycle, arrow f2 the start of the 2nd cycle, arrow f3 the beginning of the 3 rd cycle and the arrow f4 the end of the 6 th cycle.
- Example 6 influence on the level of electrical conductivity of a resistive sensor comprising a thin film of poly (3-octylthiophene) or poly (3-dodecylthiophene) of the technique used to produce this film.
- a resistive sensor comprising a thin film of poly (3-octylthiophene) or poly (3-dodecylthiophene) of the technique used to produce this film.
- four resistive sensors identical to that used in Example 1 are used, except that the upper face of the substrate of these sensors is covered with a thin film, either of poly (3-dodecylthiophene), or of poly (3-octylthiophene), this film being produced either by spraying or by spinning.
- Poly (3-dodecylthiophene) and poly (3-octylthiophene) both come from society
- Table 1 presents the electrical intensities in nA as measured at the terminals of each of the sensors when a voltage of 1 volt is applied to them.
- Examples 1 to 4 above show that resistive or gravimetric sensors, comprising a conductive or semiconductor polymer, make it possible to detect with very great sensitivity nitro compounds such as DNTFMB. They also show that the response of these sensors is reversible, this reversibility however appearing to be the fastest with a quartz microbalance sensor.
- Example 5 shows that these sensors, by not reacting to the presence of other organic compounds such as dicoromethane, methyl ethyl ketone, toluene and ethanol, make it possible moreover to selectively detect the nitro compounds.
- Example 6 shows that, in the case where the conductive or semiconductor polymer is used in the form of a thin film, the electrical conductivity of this film is likely to vary in significant proportions depending on the technique used for realize it.
- the invention offers the possibility of adjusting the electrical conductivity of a thin film intended to serve as sensitive material in a resistive sensor by on the one hand, the choice of the polymer forming this film, on the other hand, the use doping and / or dedoping reactions and, finally, by the technique of depositing this film.
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