Abstract
The detection of atmospheric aerosol particles is becoming an important issue in many fields such as environmental science, occupational medicine, semiconductor industry and material science. In the present paper, we utilized the conductive polymer, polypyrrole (PPy), as a sensitive membrane for detecting aerosol particles optically. A polymer optical fiber reflectance probe is constructed by depositing the PPy nanofilm at the end face of the fiber. The sensor principle relies on the change in the refractive index of the PPy nanofilm upon its interaction with aerosol nanoparticles and on the electrostatic induction between aerosol particles and the PPy nanofilm, which leads to a change in the reflected intensity. For preliminary evaluation of optical aerosol detector, three types of aerosol particles, NaCl, black carbon (BC) and polystyrene latex (PSL), are selected. The fabricated fiber optic reflectance probe using the PPy nanofilm shows distinct variations in the reflected light intensity depending on the type of aerosol particle and its properties. The proposed sensing approach may promote the use of conductive polymers in optical techniques for the detection of atmospheric aerosols.
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