“…Then, a surface acoustic wave (SAW) gas sensor is fabricated with the EMIM-TFSI/PEGDA ionic gel film as the sensitive layer. Its sensing mechanism is mainly based on mass loading: − the absorption of gas molecules in the sensitive layer will change the phase or center frequency of the SAW gas sensor, which is then converted into a voltage output by a signal conversion circuit. In order to verify that the presence of halogen atoms is crucial for the selectivity of the IL toward X-VOCs, three groups of gas samples, each containing one X-VOC sample and one structurally similar nonhalogenated VOC sample, are selected for the comparative test.…”