121st General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Physical Chemistry
Room No. Event Hall
Time 4월 20일 (금요일) 11:00~12:30
Code PHYS.P-154
Subject Carbon Nanotube Sponges as a Preconcentrator for Volatile Organic Compounds
Authors Juyeon Bang, Dong Wook You, Yeonhee Jang, KWANG WOO JUNG*
Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience & Technology Institute, Wonkwang University, Korea
Abstract Previously, we synthesized carbon nanotube (CNT) sponge which has porous, uniform, soft, flexible and freestanding structure. In this study, we made small-sized preconcentrator for gas chromatographic (GC) analysis using CNT sponges. Trace amount of volatile organic compounds existing in the air sample is adsorbed preferably onto the surface of CNT sponge. The enriched adsorbents are thermally (100–300 ℃) desorbed promptly from the CNT surface by appling electric DC power. GC analysis confirms that 100 times improvement of detection limit can be achieved using the preconcentrator. Therefore, the preconcentrator made of CNT sponge is advantageous in that it is driven with a small power consumption, has a small size, enables instantaneous desorption of the enriched sample, and has excellent desorption efficiency.
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