Micro and nanostructured materials for the development of optical fibre sensors
Fecha
2017Autor
Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
Identificador del proyecto
ES/1PE/TEC2016-79367 ES/1PE/TEC2016-78047-R
Impacto
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10.3390/s17102312
Resumen
The measurement of chemical and biomedical parameters can take advantage of the features
exclusively offered by optical fibre: passive nature, electromagnetic immunity and chemical stability
are some of the most relevant ones. The small dimensions of the fibre generally require that the
sensing material be loaded into a supporting matrix whose morphology is adjusted at a nanometric
scale. Tha ...
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The measurement of chemical and biomedical parameters can take advantage of the features
exclusively offered by optical fibre: passive nature, electromagnetic immunity and chemical stability
are some of the most relevant ones. The small dimensions of the fibre generally require that the
sensing material be loaded into a supporting matrix whose morphology is adjusted at a nanometric
scale. Thanks to the advances in nanotechnology new deposition methods have been developed: they
allow reagents from different chemical nature to be embedded into films with a thickness always
below a few microns that also show a relevant aspect ratio to ensure a high transduction interface.
This review reveals some of the main techniques that are currently been employed to develop this
kind of sensors, describing in detail both the resulting supporting matrices as well as the sensing
materials used. The main objective is to offer a general view of the state of the art to expose the main
challenges and chances that this technology is facing currently. [--]
Materias
Optical fibre sensor,
Nanotechnology,
Nanostructured materials,
Chemical sensing,
Biomedical sensing
Editor
MDPI
Publicado en
Sensors, 17, 2312
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa Saila /
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute of Smart Cities - ISC
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Entidades Financiadoras
This work was supported by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF-FEDER), TEC2016-79367-C2-2-R and TEC2016-78047-R projects.