Nanostructured optical waveguides for thin-film characterization
Duran, Hatice and Lau, K. H. Aaron and Cameron, Petra J. and Gitsas, Antonis and Steinhart, Martin and Knoll, Wolfgang; Knoll, Wolfgang and Advincula, Rigoberto C., eds. (2011) Nanostructured optical waveguides for thin-film characterization. In: Functional Polymer Films. Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, pp. 695-721. ISBN 9783527638482 (https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527638482.ch21)
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In this review, we summarize some of our efforts in parallel with other research groups' studies in designing, assembling, and structurally and functionally characterizing nanostructured materials using optical waveguide spectroscopy (OWS). We focus on the study of porous nanostructures: (i) cylindrical thin films (ii) mesoporous thin films, and (iii) nanorod arrays as optical waveguides for high sensitivity biosensing. We discuss the waveguiding properties of these thin films in the visible wavelengths and theoretical description of nanostructured hybrid optical waveguides by effective medium theory (EMT). We demonstrate how high sensitivity can be achieved by modifying pore walls with small functional groups (i.e. silanes) as well as polypeptide brushes. When using also mesoporous semiconducting materials (TiO2) hybrid architectures, simultaneous measurement of OWS and electrochemistry can be possible with very interesting photophysical properties that can be useful also for solar-cell applications. Other strategies for using the anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) layers as a template mold include the growth of metal or polymeric nanorod arrays from different functional monomers that after the dissolution of the template are still able to guide light. This opens up novel concepts for integrated optics platforms with nanostructured materials.
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Duran, Hatice, Lau, K. H. Aaron ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3676-9228, Cameron, Petra J., Gitsas, Antonis, Steinhart, Martin and Knoll, Wolfgang; Knoll, Wolfgang and Advincula, Rigoberto C.-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 45469 Dates: DateEvent7 June 2011PublishedNotes: M1 - 2 Subjects: Science > Chemistry Department: Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 29 Oct 2013 14:19 Last modified: 11 Nov 2024 14:53 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/45469