Title | SWCNTs-based nanocomposites as sensitive coatings for advanced fiber optic chemical nanosensors |
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Publication Type | Presentazione a Congresso |
Year of Publication | 2008 |
Authors | Consales, M., Crescitelli A., Penza Michele, Aversa Patrizia, Giordano M., Cutolo A., and Cusano A. |
Conference Name | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
Conference Location | Strasbourg |
Keywords | Analyte molecules, Cadmium, Carbon carbon composites, Carbon fiber reinforced plastics, Carbon nanotubes, Chemical sensors, Chemical traces, Chemical-, Chemo-sensors, Concentration (process), Fiber optic, Fiber optic sensors, Fiber optics, Fiber technology, Fibers, Geometrical features, Langmuir-Blodgett techniques, Liquid environments, Nano-scale coatings, Nanocomposites, Nanostructured materials, nanotechnology, Optical fiber sensors, Optical fibers, Optical materials, Optical sensors, Optical-, Reflectance measurements, Room temperature chemical detection, Room-temperature detection, Sensing layers, Sensitive coatings, Sensors, Single-walled carbon nanotubes, Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCN), standards, SWCNTs nanocomposites |
Abstract | In this work, the feasibility of exploiting novel Cadmium Arachidate (CdA)/single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) based composites as sensitive coatings for the development of robust and high performances optoelectronic chemosensors able to work in liquid environments has been investigated and proved. Here, nano-composite sensing layers have been transferred upon the distal end of standard optical fibers by the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique. Reflectance measurements have been carried out to monitor ppm concentration of chemicals in water through the changes in the optical and geometrical features of the sensing overlay induced by the interaction with the analyte molecules. Preliminary experimental results evidence that such nanoscale coatings integrated with the optical fiber technology offers great potentialities for the room temperature detection of chemical traces in water and lead to significant improvements of the traditional fiber optic sensors based on SWCNTs layers. |
URL | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-50249156420&doi=10.1117%2f12.781367&partnerID=40&md5=99570106fdaa8469083ea0de5bd957b3 |
DOI | 10.1117/12.781367 |
Citation Key | Consales2008 |