Concentrating Vapor Traces with Binary Brushes of Immiscible Polymers

Leon A. Smook; Guido C. Ritsema van Eck; Sissi de Beer

doi:10.1021/acsapm.1c00321

Concentrating Vapor Traces with Binary Brushes of Immiscible Polymers

Leon A. Smook, Guido C. Ritsema van Eck, Sissi de Beer^*

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Abstract

Vapors in the air around us can provide useful information about our environment, but we need sensitive vapor sensors to access this information, especially because those vapors are often present at very low concentrations. We report molecular dynamics simulations of a concept that can significantly increase the sensitivity of vapor sensors at low concentrations. By coating the sensor surfaces with end-anchored immiscible polymers, surface-bound polymer blends are formed that can concentrate vapors, reaching sorption enhancements of more than one order of magnitude, especially at low vapor concentrations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2336-2340
Number of pages	5
Journal	ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Volume	3
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.1c00321
Publication status	Published - 14 May 2021

Keywords

Adsorption
Molecular dynamics simulations
Polymer brushes
Vapor sensing
Vapor solvation
UT-Hybrid-D

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Concentrating Vapor Traces with Binary Brushes of Immiscible Polymers

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