Mesoporous Solid and Yolk-Shell Titania Microspheres as Touchless Colorimetric Sensors with High Responsivity and Ultrashort Response Times
- 주제(키워드) titania microspheres , mesoporous particles , humidity sensors , Mie scattering , touchless control , ultrashort humidity responsivity
- 주제(기타) Nanoscience & Nanotechnology; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
- 설명문(일반) [Jarulertwathana, Nutpaphat; Mohd-Noor, Syazwani; Hyun, Jerome K.] Ewha Womans Univ, Dept Chem & Nanosci, Seoul 03760, South Korea
- 등재 SCIE, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- 발행년도 2021
- 총서유형 Journal
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000183609
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c12514
- PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34510887
초록/요약
Touchless user interfaces offer an attractive pathway toward hygienic, remote, and interactive control over devices. Exploiting the humidity generated from fingers or human speech is a viable avenue for realizing such technology. Herein, titania microspheres including solid and yolk-shell structures with varying microstructural characteristics were demonstrated as high-performance, ultrafast, and stable optical humidity sensors aimed for touchless control. When water molecules enter the microporous network of the microspheres, the effective refractive index of the microsphere increases, causing a detectable change in the light scattering behavior. The microstructural properties of the microspheres, namely, the pore characteristics, crystallinity, and particle size, were examined in relation to the humidity-sensing performance, establishing optimum structural conditions for realizing humidity-responsive wavelength shifts above 100 nm, near full-scale relative humidity (RH) responsivity, ultrashort response times below 30 ms, and prolonged lifetimes. These optimized microspheres were used to demonstrate a colorimetric touchless sensor that responds to humidity from a finger and a microcontroller-based detector that translates the moisture pattern from human speech to electrical signals in real time. These results provide practical strategies for enabling humidity-based touchless user interfaces.
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