Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 2, Issue 10, Pages 2892-2897Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am100568c
Keywords
ORMOSIL; mesoporous materials; fluorescence quenching; thin films; TNT detection
Funding
- TUBITAK [106G090]
- Turkish Academy of Sciences
- State Planning Organization of Turkey through National Nanotechnology Research Center
- Turkish National Police Intelligence Department
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In this paper, we present a facile, template-free sol gel method to produce fluorescent and highly mesoporous organically modified silica (ORMOSIL) thin films for vapor phase sensing of TNT. An alkyltrifunctional, methyltrimethoxysilane MTMS precursor was used to impart hydrophobic behavior to gel network in order to form the spring back effect. In this way, porous films (up to 74% porosity) are obtained at ambient conditions. Fluorescent molecules are physically encapsulated in the ORMOSIL network during gelation. Fluorescence of the films was found to be stable even after 3 months, proving the successful fixing of the dye into the ORMOSIL network. The functional ORMOSIL thin films exhibited high fluorescence quenching upon exposition to TNT and DNT vapor. Fluorescence quenching responses of the films are thickness-dependent and higher fluorescence quenching efficiency was observed for the thinnest film (8.6% in 10 s). The prepared mesoporous ORMOSIL thin films have great potential in new sensor and catalysis applications.
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