Thickness effect on the solvent sensing parameters of carbon black-polymer composites

Abstract

Study of the sensing parameters: sensibility, response and recuperation times to hexane vapors for layers of different thickness of poly(butadiene) + carbon black (CB) composites is presented. The results show that sensibility increases as the CB- weight percent diminishes, being in agreement with reported results by several researches. In this work another variable was studied on the sensing parameters, the thickness. The initial electrical resistance of the studied layers increases until three magnitude orders as diminish theirs thickness and the sensibility in this study increases until one magnitude order as the layer thickness diminishes around 0.25 μm.