Enhancement of luminescence-based optical fiber oxygen sensors by tuning the distance between fluorophore layers

  • Nerea de Acha*
  • , César Elosúa
  • , Ignacio R. Matías
  • , Francisco J. Arregui
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this work, different luminescence-based optical fiber oxygen sensors have been fabricated by means of the Layer-by-Layer nanoassembly technique. The sensing material employed has been a platinum metalloporphyrin, platinum tetrakis pentafluorophenylporphine (Pt-TFFP), which has been entrapped into anionic micelles. Poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDDA), polyethyleneimine (PEI) and poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) have been utilized as cationic polyelectrolytes. With the aim of avoiding self-quenching and optimizing sensors in terms of sensitivity and linearity of the calibration curves, the spacing (thickness) between the fluorophore films has been tuned by introducing poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) between the cationic layers. The morphology of the resultant sensors has been analyzed with an Atomic Force Microscope. It has been found that the number of spacing layers between the luminescent ones is determined by the features of the employed polycation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)836-847
Number of pages12
JournalSensors and Actuators B: Chemical
Volume248
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Fluorophore distance
  • Layer-by-Layer nanoassembly
  • Luminescent sensor
  • Self-quenching

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