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Four volatile organic compounds (VOCs), in gaseous phase\u2014hexanol, butyl acetate, 2-hexanone, and hexanoic acid\u2014were measured. Two transducer mechanisms were used; resonant frequency shift and resistance shift of a QCM Mason equivalent circuit. The sensors were characterized by their sensitivity to the VOCs and their discrimination power of the four VOCs. The highest separation among VOCs was obtained when frequency and resistance information of both RTIL and conventional films was used, a sensor array composed by two RTILs (1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide and 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate) and two conventional films (tricresyl phosphate and apiezon-L) was found to improve the Wilks lambda separation for the tested gases two orders of magnitude compared to the Wilks lambda using only a conventional films array.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20144026","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,20]],"date-time":"2020-07-20T10:59:38Z","timestamp":1595242778000},"page":"4026","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Study of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids as Gas Sensing Materials in Quartz Crystal Microbalances"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Manuel","family":"Aleixandre","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Takamichi","family":"Nakamoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"210","DOI":"10.1016\/0925-4005(94)87085-3","article-title":"A brief history of electronic noses","volume":"18","author":"Gardner","year":"1994","journal-title":"Sens. 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