Vapor detection enabled by self-assembled colloidal photonic crystals |
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Authors: | Yang Hongta Jiang Peng Jiang Bin |
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Institution: | Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. |
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Abstract: | Here we report the sensitive and reversible detection of vapors by using self-assembled colloidal photonic crystals. The condensation of various vapors in the interstitials of silica colloidal photonic crystals leads to red-shift and amplitude reduction of optical stop bands. A linear relationship between wavelength shift and vapor partial pressure has been observed for a variety of vapors including ethanol, water, and toluene. Importantly, the sensitivity of colloidal photonic crystal-based vapor detectors can be improved by nearly two orders of magnitude by using a new full-peak analysis technique that takes advantage of the manifest amplitude reduction of optical stop bands during vapor condensation. Optical simulation based on a scalar-wave approximation model shows that the predicted optical responses during vapor condensation in colloidal photonic crystals agree well with experimental results. The condensation of vapors between submicrometer-scale microspheres, a topic that has received little examination, has also been investigated by both experiments and theoretical calculations. Predictions based on a modified Kelvin equation match with the experiments for a wide range of vapor partial pressures. |
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