Nano-Micro Letters (Jun 2023)

Outstanding Humidity Chemiresistors Based on Imine-Linked Covalent Organic Framework Films for Human Respiration Monitoring

  • Xiyu Chen,
  • Lingwei Kong,
  • Jaafar Abdul-Aziz Mehrez,
  • Chao Fan,
  • Wenjing Quan,
  • Yongwei Zhang,
  • Min Zeng,
  • Jianhua Yang,
  • Nantao Hu,
  • Yanjie Su,
  • Hao Wei,
  • Zhi Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01107-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Highlights Imine groups in covalent organic framework (COF) films act as dual-active sites for humidity sensing, inducing an intrinsic enhanced mechanism of reversible protonated tautomerism via water molecule-induced hydrogen bonding. The cis-ketoimine reciprocal isomerization induces a stretching vibration effect for the ordered conjugated conductive frame of COF films, realizing fast response, wide range, and high sensitivity characteristics for humidity detection. Resistance changes of COF film-based sensors keep a strong linear relationship with low-range relative humidity, reflecting the quantitative sensing mechanism at the molecular level.

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