Piezoelectric sorption detector

King, W.H. Piezoelectric sorption detector. Anal. Chem. 1964, 36, 1735. 

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King (5) reported that the first crystal sorption detector was the "Martini Detector", a fun project he started in the basement of his house. He coated the crystals in his ham radio transmitter with the insect repellent (di-n-butylphthalate), and found that the frequency shifted more when the coating was exposed to alcoholic breath than to normal breath. Out of that fun project came the pioneering work of King in the development of the piezoelectric sorption detector. The high sensitivity, simplicity, and ruggedness of the piezoelectric sorption detector led to a variety of applications in air pollution research. 

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The most sensitive solvent vapor sorption method is the piezoelectric sorption detector. The amount of solvent vapor absorbed by a polymer is detected by a corresponding change in frequency of a piezoelectric quartz crystal coated with a thin film of the polymer because a frequency change is the response of a mass ehange at the surface of such a crystal. The frequency of the crystal decreases as mass increases when the crystal is placed in a gas or vapor medium. The frequency decrease is fairly hnear. The polymer must be coated onto the crystal from a solution with some care to obtain a fairly uniform film. Measurements can be made at dynamic (vapor flow) or static conditions. With reasonable assumptions for the stabihty of the crystal s base frequency and the precision of the frequency counter employed, the piezoelectric method allows the detection of as little as 10... 

Figure 4.4.10. Schematic diagram of an isopiestic vapor sorption apparatus using a piezoelectric crystal detector. [Reprinted with permission from Ref 101, Copyright 1995, American Chemical Society].

Sorption and surface adsorption of chemical agents by a mat of polymer nanofibers can be detected gravimetrically using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) detectors (Ding et al. 2004b, 2005c Kwoun et al. 2001). The mass sensor is essentially a circular quartz crystal with thin metal elecfiodes deposited on either side of it. The resonant frequency of the piezoelectric crystal in an AC field depends on the crystal characteristics as well as the mass of material deposited on its surface. The Sauerbrey equation predicts a linear relationship... 

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