• An antibacterial surface coating composed of PAH/SiO2 nanostructurated films by layer by layer 

      Urrutia Azcona, Aitor Upna Orcid; Rivero Fuente, Pedro J. Upna Orcid; Ruete Ibarrola, Leyre; Goicoechea Fernández, Javier Upna Orcid; Fernández Valdivielso, Carlos Upna; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Matías Maestro, Ignacio Upna Orcid (Wiley, 2010)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this work we propose a novel antibacterial coating composed of SiO2 and the polymer Poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH). The coating was fabricated by the technique Layer-by-Layer (LbL). This technique has already been ...
    • Humidity sensor based on silver nanopartlcles embedded in a polymeric coating 

      Rivero Fuente, Pedro J. Upna Orcid; Urrutia Azcona, Aitor Upna Orcid; Goicoechea Fernández, Javier Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Matías Maestro, Ignacio Upna Orcid (Sciendo, 2012)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this work, it is presented a novel optical fiber humidity sensor based on silver nanoparticle-loaded polymeric coatings built onto an optical fiber core. The polymeric film was fabricated using the Layer-by-Layer assembly ...
    • Layer-by-layer nano-assembly: a powerful tool for optical fiber sensing applications 

      Rivero Fuente, Pedro J. Upna Orcid; Goicoechea Fernández, Javier Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2019)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      The ability to tune the composition of nanostructured thin films is a hot topic for the design of functional coatings with advanced properties for sensing applications. The control of the structure at the nanoscale level ...
    • Self-referenced optical fiber sensor based on LSPR generated by gold and silver nanoparticles embedded in layer-by-layer nanostructured coatings 

      Martínez Hernández, María Elena Upna Orcid; Goicoechea Fernández, Javier Upna Orcid; Rivero Fuente, Pedro J. Upna Orcid; Sandúa Fernández, Xabier; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2022)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this work, an optical fiber sensor based on the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) phenomenon has been designed for the detection of two different chemical species (mercury and hydrogen peroxide) by using ...
    • Self-referenced optical fiber sensor for hydrogen peroxide detection based on LSPR of metallic nanoparticles in layer-by-layer films 

      Goicoechea Fernández, Javier Upna Orcid; Rivero Fuente, Pedro J. Upna Orcid; Sada Oreja, Samuel; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2019)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Intensity-based optical fiber sensors are one of the most studied sensor approaches thanks to their simplicity and low cost. Nevertheless, their main issue is their lack of robustness since any light source fluctuation, ...

      El Repositorio ha recibido la ayuda de la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología para la realización de actividades en el ámbito del fomento de la investigación científica de excelencia, en la Línea 2. Repositorios institucionales (convocatoria 2020-2021).
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