Abstract
Present investigation describes simple chemical synthesis of Bi2O3 loaded polypyrrole (PPy) composites are prepared by ex-situ approach. As prepared composites show good sensing performance towards liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). The sensing response of composites has been observed good dependence on loading concentration of Bi2O3 in PPy. Main achievement of present work is that the operating temperature (353 K) of composite (25 wt %) is found much below the auto-ignition temperature of LPG. Besides that composites exhibit good complex optical properties such as extinction coefficient, optical conductivity, real and imaginary dielectric constant..
Keywords
Resistive type gas sensing, Optical conductivity, Polypyrrole.
Citation
A. R. CHOUDHARY, S. A. WAGHULEY, Resistive type gas sensing and complex optical properties of ex situ Bi2O3 loaded polypyrrole, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 12, 1-2, January-February 2018, pp.117-124 (2018).
Submitted at: March 15, 2017
Accepted at: Feb. 12, 2018