Ana Carolina Correia da Silva Padua

Mrs. Ana Carolina Correia da Silva Padua

CERN

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Academic Career Length

6Years (2021-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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30 July 2021 in Chemosensors
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WGWellington Gonçalves
Wellington Gonçalves
ECEvelyn P. Cervantes
Evelyn P. Cervantes
Ana Carolina Correia da Silva PaduaAna Carolina Correia da Silva Padua
Ana Carolina Correia da Silva Padua
GSGonçalo Santos
Gonçalo Santos
SPSusana I.C.J. Palma
Susana I.C.J. Palma
Jonas GruberJonas Gruber
Jonas Gruber
Ionogel are versatile materials, as they present the electrical properties of ionic liquids and also dimensional stability, since they are trapped in a solid matrix, allowing application in electronic devices such as gas sensors and electronic noses. In this work, ionogels were designed to act as a sensitive layer for the detection of volatiles in a custom-made electronic nose. Ionogels composed of gelatin and a single imidazolium ionic liquid were doped with bare and functionalized iron oxide nanoparticles, producing ionogels with adjustable target selectivity. After exposing an array of four ionogels to 12 distinct volatile organic compounds, the collected signals were analyzed by principal component analysis (PCA) and by several supervised classification methods, in order to assess the ability of the electronic nose to distinguish different volatiles, which showed accuracy above 98%.