Intelligent pigments and plastics for CO2 detection

Mills, Andrew and Skinner, Graham A. and Grosshans, Pauline (2010) Intelligent pigments and plastics for CO2 detection. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20. pp. 5008-5010. ISSN 0959-9428 (https://doi.org/10.1039/c0jm00582g)

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Abstract

A novel CO2 intelligent pigment is incorporated into a thermoplastic polymer to create a long-lived CO2-sensitive plastic film which is characterised and then compared to a traditional solvent-based CO2 indicator film.