Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (3): 479.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20160486

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Colloidal Magnetically Assembled Photonic Crystals and Ionic Strength Sensing

YOU Aimei, CAO Yuhua*(), CAO Guangqun   

  1. The Key Laboratory of Food Colloids and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
  • Received:2016-07-08 Online:2017-03-10 Published:2017-02-24
  • Contact: CAO Yuhua E-mail:yuhuacao64@gmail.com
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21405133, 21774056) and the Postgraduate Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province, China(No.KYLX16_0786).

Abstract:

Magnetic composite nanoparticles(MCNPs) with magnetic core and polymers shell were prepared via miniemulsion polymerization technique. As the assembling blocks, MCNPs were constructed into colloidal magnetically assembled photonic crystals(CMA-PCs) with the assistance of a magnetic field. The characterization results of TEM and SEM show that MCNPs have uniform spherical morphology, a distinct core-shell structure and good monodispersity. The average diameter of MCNPs was 112 nm, the shell of MCNPs was about 10 nm in thickness. The diffraction color of CMA-PCs changed from orange to purple, the reflection wavelength shifted from 607 nm to 434 nm as the ionic strength increased from 0.03 mmol/L to 0.75 mmol/L, with response time less than 10 s. As a chemical sensor, CMA-PCs have the advantages of convenient, sensitive and naked eye visual detection, and could be applied in the semi-quantitative detection of ionic strength.

Key words: Magnetic composite nanoparticles, Colloidal magnetically assembled photonic crystals, Ionic strength

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