Development and Characterization of a Novel Low-Cost Water-Level and Water Quality Monitoring Sensor by Using Enhanced Screen Printing Technology with PEDOT:PSS

A novel capacitive sensor for measuring the water-level and monitoring the water quality has been developed in this work by using an enhanced screen printing technology. A commonly used environment-friendly conductive polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly (styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) for c...

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Autores principales: Wang, Bei, Baeuscher, Manuel, Hu, Xiaodong, Woehrmann, Markus, Becker, Katharina, Juergensen, Nils, Hubl, Moritz, Mackowiak, Piotr, Schneider-Ramelow, Martin, Lang, Klaus-Dieter, Ngo, Ha-Duong
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7281604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32365783
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi11050474
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author Wang, Bei
Baeuscher, Manuel
Hu, Xiaodong
Woehrmann, Markus
Becker, Katharina
Juergensen, Nils
Hubl, Moritz
Mackowiak, Piotr
Schneider-Ramelow, Martin
Lang, Klaus-Dieter
Ngo, Ha-Duong
author_facet Wang, Bei
Baeuscher, Manuel
Hu, Xiaodong
Woehrmann, Markus
Becker, Katharina
Juergensen, Nils
Hubl, Moritz
Mackowiak, Piotr
Schneider-Ramelow, Martin
Lang, Klaus-Dieter
Ngo, Ha-Duong
author_sort Wang, Bei
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description A novel capacitive sensor for measuring the water-level and monitoring the water quality has been developed in this work by using an enhanced screen printing technology. A commonly used environment-friendly conductive polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly (styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) for conductive sensors has a limited conductivity due to its high sheet resistance. A physical treatment performed during the printing process has reduced the sheet resistance of printed PEDOT:PSS on polyethylenterephthalat (PET) substrate from 264.39 Ω/sq to 23.44 Ω/sq. The adhesion bonding force between printed PEDOT:PSS and the substrate PET is increased by using chemical treatment and tested using a newly designed adhesive peeling force test. Using the economical conductive ink PEDOT:PSS with this new physical treatment, our capacitive sensors are cost-efficient and have a sensitivity of up to 1.25 pF/mm.
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spelling pubmed-72816042020-06-17 Development and Characterization of a Novel Low-Cost Water-Level and Water Quality Monitoring Sensor by Using Enhanced Screen Printing Technology with PEDOT:PSS Wang, Bei Baeuscher, Manuel Hu, Xiaodong Woehrmann, Markus Becker, Katharina Juergensen, Nils Hubl, Moritz Mackowiak, Piotr Schneider-Ramelow, Martin Lang, Klaus-Dieter Ngo, Ha-Duong Micromachines (Basel) Article A novel capacitive sensor for measuring the water-level and monitoring the water quality has been developed in this work by using an enhanced screen printing technology. A commonly used environment-friendly conductive polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly (styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) for conductive sensors has a limited conductivity due to its high sheet resistance. A physical treatment performed during the printing process has reduced the sheet resistance of printed PEDOT:PSS on polyethylenterephthalat (PET) substrate from 264.39 Ω/sq to 23.44 Ω/sq. The adhesion bonding force between printed PEDOT:PSS and the substrate PET is increased by using chemical treatment and tested using a newly designed adhesive peeling force test. Using the economical conductive ink PEDOT:PSS with this new physical treatment, our capacitive sensors are cost-efficient and have a sensitivity of up to 1.25 pF/mm. MDPI 2020-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7281604/ /pubmed/32365783 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi11050474 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wang, Bei
Baeuscher, Manuel
Hu, Xiaodong
Woehrmann, Markus
Becker, Katharina
Juergensen, Nils
Hubl, Moritz
Mackowiak, Piotr
Schneider-Ramelow, Martin
Lang, Klaus-Dieter
Ngo, Ha-Duong
Development and Characterization of a Novel Low-Cost Water-Level and Water Quality Monitoring Sensor by Using Enhanced Screen Printing Technology with PEDOT:PSS
title Development and Characterization of a Novel Low-Cost Water-Level and Water Quality Monitoring Sensor by Using Enhanced Screen Printing Technology with PEDOT:PSS
title_full Development and Characterization of a Novel Low-Cost Water-Level and Water Quality Monitoring Sensor by Using Enhanced Screen Printing Technology with PEDOT:PSS
title_fullStr Development and Characterization of a Novel Low-Cost Water-Level and Water Quality Monitoring Sensor by Using Enhanced Screen Printing Technology with PEDOT:PSS
title_full_unstemmed Development and Characterization of a Novel Low-Cost Water-Level and Water Quality Monitoring Sensor by Using Enhanced Screen Printing Technology with PEDOT:PSS
title_short Development and Characterization of a Novel Low-Cost Water-Level and Water Quality Monitoring Sensor by Using Enhanced Screen Printing Technology with PEDOT:PSS
title_sort development and characterization of a novel low-cost water-level and water quality monitoring sensor by using enhanced screen printing technology with pedot:pss
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7281604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32365783
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi11050474
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