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Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Volume 193, 2014, Pages 10–18.
Aide Wu1, , , Yuan Gu1, Christian Beck2, Zafar Iqbal3, John F. Federici1
1 Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, United States and
2 Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, United States and
3 Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, United States.
Abstract
A flexible reversible color change poly-(10,12-tricosadiynoic acid) TCDA-ZnO (2.5 wt%) composite based chromatic sensor was successfully designed and fabricated by inkjet printing. Fabricated sensors showed good reversibility and stable chromatic properties with color transition temperature at 70 °C. Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) – Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectra show chelate formation between TCDA and ZnO. Temperature-dependent Raman spectra indicate that the blue-red phase of poly-TCDA-ZnO (2.5 wt%) is thermally triggered at 70 °C and the amorphous phase is formed near 120 °C. An inkjet printed Quick Response (QR) code using poly TCDA-ZnO demonstrates a sensory functionality which can be incorporated in these codes.
