Opals infiltrated with a stimuli-responsive hydrogel for ethanol vapor sensing

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1820-1833

  Pernice, Riccardo ^a   Adamo, Gabriele ^a   Stivala, Salvatore ^a   Parisi, Antonino ^a   Busacca, Alessandro C ^a   Spigolon, Dario ^a   Sabatino, Maria Antonietta ^a   D'Acquisto, Leonardo ^a   Dispenza, Clelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHANOL CONCENTRATIONS; FABRICATED STRUCTURES; FABRICATION PROCESS; LINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL TEMPLATES; STIMULI-RESPONSIVE; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

ETHANOL; HYDROGELS; POLYSTYRENES; SILICATE MINERALS;

VAPORS;

EID: 84887222628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.001820     Document Type: Article

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