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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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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 |
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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/). |
spellingShingle | Article 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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