CN113960123A - Ammonia-sensitive flexible intelligent package for detecting freshness of fish - Google Patents

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CN113960123A
CN113960123A CN202111281112.5A CN202111281112A CN113960123A CN 113960123 A CN113960123 A CN 113960123A CN 202111281112 A CN202111281112 A CN 202111281112A CN 113960123 A CN113960123 A CN 113960123A
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付亚波
李乐
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侯存霞
卢敬锐
刘辉
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An ammonia-sensitive flexible intelligent package for detecting freshness of fish belongs to the technical field of intelligent packaging. The flexible ammonia gas sensor comprises a flexible substrate, an interdigital electrode and an ammonia gas sensitive layer, and the preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) cleaning a flexible plastic film with ethanol and then drying the film to be used as a flexible substrate; (2) printing the conductive metal paste into an interdigital electrode on a flexible substrate by a screen printing technology; (3) mixing PEDOT, PSS and WS2Coating the substrate surface with the interdigital electrode by an ultrasonic mixed rear layer; drying to obtain a flexible ammonia gas sensor; (4) and combining the ammonia gas sensor with the NFC label to finish the preparation of the ammonia-sensitive intelligent package. The sensor has good stability, strong reliability, repeated use, low response value to humidity, good response to ammonia gas and wide application prospect in the aspect of intelligent packaging.

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Ammonia-sensitive flexible intelligent package for detecting freshness of fish
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of flexible gas sensors, and particularly relates to an ammonia-sensitive sensor capable of being applied to intelligent fish packaging, wherein the ammonia-sensitive sensor is based on PEDOT (PEDOT: PSS/WS)2CompoundingA flexible ammonia gas sensor and a preparation method thereof.
Background
Fish food provides a variety of nutrients including high quality proteins, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and a variety of vitamins and minerals. However, fish products are subject to deterioration during production, storage and sale due to the large time span and the difficult control of environmental conditions. During the deterioration process, substances such as protein, fat, amino acid, urea and the like in the fish products are easy to generate NH under the action of bacteria3And other gases, which may cause harm to human health and seriously cause hypotension, edema, urticaria, diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms, therefore, NH3Can be used as a marker for detecting the freshness of various fish foods. Reacting NH3The sensor is combined with intelligent packaging, the content of ammonia gas generated by fish food can be monitored in real time, and the sensor has vital practical significance to human health.
Researchers find that metal oxides, graphene, sulfides and conductive polymers can be applied to detection of ammonia gas, and the patent CN103076370A discloses that an ink-jet printing technology is used to prepare a flexible ammonia gas sensor compounded by carbon nanotubes and PABS, and the sensor has a high response to ammonia gas, but a high temperature treatment process is used in preparation. Patent CN 109632890A prepares a PAA/AgNPs composite flexible ammonia gas sensor, and patent CN 109470752A discloses a sensor based on poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene): the preparation method of the polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT: PSS) flexible ammonia gas sensor has good response to ammonia gas at room temperature, but has high cost and certain response to humidity. Therefore, an ammonia gas sensor which is simple in process flow and has certain anti-interference capability on humidity needs to be developed, so that the sensor can be applied to intelligent packaging of fish food and has good response on ammonia gas at room temperature.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the technical problem of providing a PEDOT (PSS)/WS (WS) solution aiming at the defects of the prior art2The preparation method of the flexible ammonia gas sensor enables the sensor to be applied to an intelligent bagAnd (6) assembling. According to the invention, dimethyl sulfoxide is added into a PEDOT/PSS aqueous solution, so that the prepared ammonia gas sensor has low responsiveness to humidity, the sensor is simple in preparation process, can detect ammonia gases with different concentrations at room temperature, has a good response value to low-concentration ammonia gases, and can be widely used for fresh and intelligent packaging of meat.
The invention provides a flexible ammonia gas sensor, comprising: the device comprises a flexible substrate, interdigital electrodes and a sensitive layer. The technical scheme is as follows:
(1) preparing a flexible substrate, carrying out ultrasonic cleaning on the flexible substrate by adopting ethanol, acetone and deionized water in sequence, and then carrying out drying treatment, preferably drying at the temperature of 70 ℃;
(2) printing metal conductive paste on a flexible substrate in a screen printing mode, and then drying at the temperature of 40-100 ℃ to prepare a metal interdigital electrode on the flexible substrate;
(3) taking PEDOT: PSS water solution, adding dimethyl sulfoxide, stirring, ultrasonic dispersing, and mixing with WS2And (3) mixing the aqueous solution, and uniformly dispersing by using ultrasonic to obtain a mixture based on PEDOT: ammonia sensitive solutions of PSS;
(4) coating the ammonia-sensitive solution on the metal electrode by adopting a dropping coating, scraping coating or spraying mode and the like, and then drying at the temperature of 40-80 ℃ for 30-60 minutes to prepare a flexible ammonia gas sensor;
(5) and connecting the NFC label with the prepared ammonia gas sensor, and placing the NFC label inside the package to finish the preparation of the ammonia-sensitive intelligent package.
Preferably, the flexible substrate is one of polyethylene terephthalate, polyimide, polyurethane, polydimethylsiloxane, polymethyl methacrylate and polycarbonate.
PEDOT in step (3): the concentration of the PSS aqueous solution is 1.5 wt%; dimethylsulfoxide and PEDOT: the volume ratio of the PSS aqueous solution is 100: 5; PEDOT: aqueous solutions of PSS and WS2The volume ratio of the solution is 100 (1-5); WS2The concentration of the solution was 1 mg/ml.
Preferably, the sensitive layer mainly comprises PEDOT: PSS, WS2Or WS2Replacing one or more of MWCNTs, GO, PANI and PPy;
preferably, the width of the interdigital pair of the metal interdigital electrode is 100-1000 microns.
The PEDOT PSS/WS prepared by the invention2The flexible ammonia gas sensor has the following advantages:
1. according to the invention, the metal conductive electrode is printed on the flexible substrate by silk-screen printing and then the ammonia-sensitive mixture solution is coated, so that the use of complex equipment and process is avoided, the method has the advantages of simplicity, rapidness, low cost and the like, and the preparation of a large-area high-sensitivity flexible ammonia gas sensor can be realized;
2. the sensor prepared by the invention has low response value to humidity and has good response to ammonia gas;
3. the flexible ammonia gas sensor prepared by the invention has good stability and strong reliability, can be repeatedly used, and has good application prospect in the aspect of intelligent packaging.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the structure of an ammonia gas level sensor;
FIG. 2 is a response recovery curve of the ammonia gas sensor in example 1 in an ammonia gas atmosphere having a concentration of 1000 ppm;
FIG. 3 is a response curve of the ammonia gas sensor in example 2 exposed to an atmosphere of ammonia gas of different concentrations;
fig. 4 is a graph comparing the response of the ammonia gas sensor in the humidity environment in the comparative example and the example 2.
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In order to better illustrate the present invention, specific embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described with reference to the comparative examples and the accompanying drawings.
Comparative example 1
(1) Ultrasonically cleaning the flexible substrate for 15min by using absolute ethyl alcohol, ultrasonically cleaning the flexible substrate for 15min by using acetone, finally cleaning the flexible substrate by using deionized water, and drying the flexible substrate in a vacuum drying oven at 70 ℃.
(2) Printing conductive silver paste into an electrode on a flexible substrate in a screen printing mode, wherein the width of the electrode is 500 micrometers, and then drying the electrode at the temperature of 40-100 ℃ to prepare a silver interdigital electrode on the flexible substrate;
(3) taking 1000 microliter of PEDOT with a concentration of 1.5%: PSS aqueous solution, with 40. mu.l of 1mg/ml WS2Mixing the solutions, and carrying out ultrasonic oscillation at 60Hz for 1 hour to obtain an ammonia-sensitive solution;
(4) 200 microliter of ammonia-sensitive solution is coated on the silver electrode by adopting a dripping mode, and then is dried for 30 minutes at the temperature of 60 ℃ and is dried for 1 hour at room temperature to prepare PEDOT (PSS/WS)2The flexible ammonia gas sensor of (1).
Example 1
(1) Ultrasonically cleaning the flexible substrate for 15min by using absolute ethyl alcohol, ultrasonically cleaning the flexible substrate for 15min by using acetone, finally cleaning the flexible substrate by using deionized water, and drying the flexible substrate in a vacuum drying oven at 70 ℃;
(2) printing conductive silver paste into an electrode on a flexible substrate in a screen printing mode, wherein the width of the electrode is 1mm, and then drying the electrode at the temperature of 40-100 ℃ to prepare a silver interdigital electrode on the flexible substrate;
(3) taking 1000 microliter of PEDOT with a concentration of 1.5%: PSS aqueous solution, adding 50 microliters of dimethyl sulfoxide solution, mixing well with 10 microliters of 1mg/ml WS2Mixing the solutions, and carrying out ultrasonic oscillation at 60Hz for 1 hour to obtain an ammonia-sensitive solution;
(4) 300 microliter of ammonia-sensitive solution is coated on the silver electrode by adopting a dripping mode, and then is dried for 30 minutes at the temperature of 60 ℃ and is dried for 1 hour at room temperature to prepare PEDOT (PSS/WS) in the embodiment 12The flexible ammonia gas sensor of (1);
(5) the NFC tag was connected to the ammonia sensor in example 1 and placed inside the package to complete the preparation of the ammonia-sensitive smart package.
Example 2
(1) Ultrasonically cleaning the flexible substrate for 15min by using absolute ethyl alcohol, ultrasonically cleaning the flexible substrate for 15min by using acetone, finally cleaning the flexible substrate by using deionized water, and drying the flexible substrate in a vacuum drying oven at 70 ℃;
(2) printing conductive silver paste into an electrode on a flexible substrate in a screen printing mode, wherein the width of the electrode is 500 micrometers, and then drying the electrode at the temperature of 40-100 ℃ to prepare a silver interdigital electrode on the flexible substrate;
(3) taking 1000 microliter of PEDOT with a concentration of 1.5%: PSS aqueous solution, adding 50 microliters of dimethyl sulfoxide solution, mixing well with 40 microliters of 1mg/ml WS2Mixing the solutions, and carrying out ultrasonic oscillation at 60Hz for 1 hour to obtain an ammonia-sensitive solution;
(4) 200 microliter of ammonia-sensitive solution is coated on the silver electrode by adopting a dripping mode, and then is dried for 30 minutes at the temperature of 50 ℃ and is dried for 2 hours at room temperature to prepare PEDOT (PSS/WS) in the embodiment 22The flexible ammonia gas sensor of (1);
(5) the NFC tag was connected to the ammonia sensor in example 2 and placed inside the package to complete the preparation of the ammonia-sensitive intelligent package.
FIG. 1 shows PEDOT: PSS/WS2The flexible ammonia gas sensor of (1). Wherein reference numeral 1 denotes a flexible substrate, reference numeral 2 denotes a metal interdigital electrode, and reference numeral 3 denotes a sensitive layer.
FIG. 2 is a response recovery curve of the ammonia gas sensor in example 1 in an ammonia gas atmosphere having a concentration of 1000 ppm. As can be seen from the graph, the resistance of the sensor in an ammonia gas atmosphere tends to increase first and then decrease, and the response is good.
FIG. 3 is a fitted curve of the response of the sensor of example 2 to exposure to an atmosphere of varying concentrations of ammonia; the response value is represented by the letter S, S ═ Rg-Ra/Ra. Wherein, Ra is the initial resistance of sensor, and Rg is the corresponding resistance value when certain concentration target detection gas of sensing device contact. As can be seen from fig. 3, as the ammonia gas concentration increases, the response value of the sensor also increases. And the ammonia concentration and the response value have very good linear relation (R)2=0.98558)。
Fig. 4 is a graph showing the change in resistance of the comparative example and example 2 in a different humidity environment. As can be seen from fig. 3, the ammonia gas sensor in the comparative example showed a very clear response to a change in humidity. When the relative humidity exceeds 23%, the response value increases with the increase of the humidity, and when the humidity reaches 85%, the response value reaches 94%.
The ammonia gas sensor in example 2 has a response value between 1% and 3% in a low-humidity and high-humidity environment, and has no obvious change. These results show that the flexible ammonia gas sensor of PEDOT: PSS/WS2 has potential application in intelligent packaging of fish food.

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1. A preparation method of an ammonia-sensitive flexible intelligent package for detecting freshness of fish meat is characterized by comprising the following steps:
(1) preparing a flexible substrate, carrying out ultrasonic cleaning on the flexible substrate by adopting ethanol, acetone and deionized water in sequence, and then carrying out drying treatment, preferably drying at the temperature of 70 ℃;
(2) printing metal conductive paste on a flexible substrate in a screen printing mode, and then drying at the temperature of 40-100 ℃ to prepare a metal interdigital electrode on the flexible substrate;
(3) taking PEDOT: PSS water solution, adding dimethyl sulfoxide, stirring, ultrasonic dispersing, and mixing with WS2And (3) mixing the aqueous solution, and uniformly dispersing by using ultrasonic to obtain a mixture based on PEDOT: ammonia sensitive solutions of PSS;
(4) coating the ammonia-sensitive solution on the metal electrode by adopting a dropping coating, scraping coating or spraying mode and the like, and then drying at the temperature of 40-80 ℃ for 30-60 minutes to prepare a flexible ammonia gas sensor;
(5) and connecting the NFC label with the prepared ammonia gas sensor, and placing the NFC label inside the package to finish the preparation of the ammonia-sensitive intelligent package.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the flexible substrate is one of polyethylene terephthalate, polyimide, polyurethane, polydimethylsiloxane, polymethylmethacrylate, and polycarbonate.
3. The method for preparing an ammonia-sensitive flexible smart package for detecting freshness of fish meat according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of PEDOT: the concentration of the aqueous PSS solution was 1.5 wt%.
4. The method for preparing an ammonia-sensitive flexible smart package for detecting freshness of fish meat according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of dimethylsulfoxide to PEDOT: volume ratio of PSS aqueous solution is 5: 100.
5. the method for preparing an ammonia-sensitive flexible smart package for detecting freshness of fish meat according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of PEDOT: aqueous solutions of PSS and WS2The volume ratio of the solution is 100 (1-5); WS2The concentration of the solution was 1 mg/ml.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein WS in the sensitive layer is selected from the group consisting of a liquid, a gel2Can be replaced by one or more of MWCNTs, GO, PANI and PPy.
7. The method for preparing an ammonia-sensitive flexible intelligent package for detecting the freshness of fish meat according to claim 1, wherein the width of the interdigital pair of the metal interdigital electrode is 100 to 1000 microns.
8. An ammonia-sensitive flexible smart package prepared according to the method of any one of claims 1 to 7.
9. An ammonia-sensitive flexible smart package prepared according to the method of any one of claims 1 to 7 for packaging and monitoring fish freshness.
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