Copolymer-Based Photonic Crystal Sensor for Discriminative
Detection of Liquid Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene
Posted on 2019-09-10 - 21:43
Photonic
crystals (PCs) with adjustable optical properties have
received increasing attention in research of colorimetric sensors
for volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Herein, a high-sensitive copolymer-based
1DPC sensor comprising poly(styrene-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate-acrylic
acid) (P(St-EGDMA-AA)) and TiO2 is designed for visual
detecting and discriminating liquid aromatic VOCs–benzene,
toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX). The functional multilayered
and porous sensor quickly and reversibly varies its color from violet
to red of different shades and reaches a response balance within 1.0,
1.5, 8.0, and 12.0 s when immersed in benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene,
and xylene, respectively, realizing rapid discriminative detection
of these aromatic compounds. When the PC sensor is applied to aromatic
hydrocarbon–ethanol binary mixtures, its photonic stopband
position redshifts first and blueshifts afterward with the increase
of the concentration of the aromatic hydrocarbon, and this phenomenon
can be explained by the “cosolvency effect”. Notably,
introduction of a third component–water to the binary
system greatly affects the optical properties of the sensor even at
low concentration of the aromatic hydrocarbon. With potential utility,
these photonic materials are promising as portable, economical, and
visually detectable aromatic hydrocarbon sensors for environment quality
monitoring.
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Kou, Donghui; Ma, Wei; Zhang, Shufen; Tang, Bingtao (2019). Copolymer-Based Photonic Crystal Sensor for Discriminative
Detection of Liquid Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene. ACS Publications. Collection. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.9b00580