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<p>The study of new nanostructured transparent materials in order to control the permeability properties of the objects is a very interesting field of research due to its enormous applications in optical and electronics among others. With the aim of achieving superhydrophilic coatings it is very important to control some coating parameters such as the water affinity of the coating materials and the overall thickness and roughness at the nanometer scale. In this work transparent superhydrophilic ultra-thin coatings have been fabricated with the Layer-by-Layer (LbL) technique using different diameter SiO2 nanoparticles. These coatings were characterized to optimize their behavior and were applied to optical fiber substrates in order to create superhydrophilic optical interferometric cavities. These cavities show an optical response to Relative Humidity (RH) variations that are suitable for high performance sensing applications such as human-breathing monitoring</p>
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The study of new nanostructured transparent materials in order to control the permeability properties of the objects is a very interesting field of research due to its enormous applications in optical and electronics among others. With the aim of achieving superhydrophilic coatings it is very important to control some coating parameters such as the water affinity of the coating materials and the overall thickness and roughness at the nanometer scale. In this work transparent superhydrophilic ultra-thin coatings have been fabricated with the Layer-by-Layer (LbL) technique using different diameter SiO2 nanoparticles. These coatings were characterized to optimize their behavior and were applied to optical fiber substrates in order to create superhydrophilic optical interferometric cavities. These cavities show an optical response to Relative Humidity (RH) variations that are suitable for high performance sensing applications such as human-breathing monitoring

Study Of Superhydrophilic Nanoparticle-Based Ultra-Thin Films Towards The Development Of Optical Fiber Humidity Sensors

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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The study of new nanostructured transparent materials in order to control the permeability properties of the objects is a very interesting field of research...

Study Of Superhydrophilic Nanoparticle-Based Ultra-Thin Films Towards The Development Of Optical Fiber Humidity Sensors

Pubblicato online: 02 nov 2017

Pagine: 63 - 74

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-338

© 2009 Miguel Hernaez et al., published by Sciendo

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