Dehydration Sensing of a Polyvinyl Alcohol Film via Plasmonic Nanoparticles

MRS Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 299-304
Author(s):  
Milana O. Lisunova

ABSTRACTIn situ, real-time monitoring of a dehydration of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) film is researched. The technique based on the incorporation plasmonic nanocages (NCs) between the two identical layers of PVA, (PVA)/NCs/(PVA) film, and its sensitivity to the variation of the refractive index of the surrounding PVA film via desorption water. The dehydration time increases from 180 (s) to 1800 (s) as the content of the PVA in the films increases twice, from (PVA)/NCs/(PVA) to (PVA)2/NCs/(PVA)2. Such effect could be explained by different rate of the molecules desorption from the PVA based films. Specifically, the dehydration rate is of 0.22 (vol% per s) and 0.026 (vol% per s) for (PVA)/NCs/(PVA) and (PVA)2/NCs/(PVA)2 films, respectively. The dehydration rate constant reduces from -50×10-4 (s-1) to -4.3 ×10-4 (s-1) as the content of PVA increases from (PVA)/NCs/(PVA) to (PVA)2/NCs/(PVA)2 films, respectively.

1992 ◽  
Vol 47 (12) ◽  
pp. 1204-1210 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kawski ◽  
B. Kukliński ◽  
A. Kubicki ◽  
I. Gryczyński

The effect of temperature on the absorption and fluorescence properties of 1,4-diphenyl-1,3-butadiene (DPB) in polyvinyl alcohol) film (PVA) was investigated in the range from 293 to 423 K. Upon heating above 353 K, the optical density in the long wavelength region (at 339 nm) increases five times only, whereas for 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) and 1,8-diphenyl-1,3,5,7-octatetraene (DPO) ten and twenty times, respectively. However, the total quantum yield (ΦF = 0.68) at 293 K is greater than that for the trans-trans form (ΦF = 0.63) and decreases with growing temperature. Both this effect and broadening effect in the fluorescence band at 293 K evidence the existence of two emission centres, i.e. the trans-trans and cis-trans conformers.


1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 1013-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ivanov ◽  
L. Nikolova ◽  
T. Todorov ◽  
N. Tomova ◽  
V. Dragostinova

1996 ◽  
Vol 51 (9) ◽  
pp. 1037-1041 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kawski ◽  
Z. Gryczyński ◽  
I. Gryczyński ◽  
J. R. Lakowicz ◽  
G. Piszczek

Abstract It was found by investigating dichroism and emission anisotropy in the case of one-and two-photon excitation of Hoechst 33342 [bis-benzimide,2,5'-bi-1H-benzimidazole, 2'-(4-ethoxyphenyl)-5-5(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)] in stretched poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) films, that the absorption and fluorescence transition moments lie along the long molecular axis of the molecule studied. The slight deviation of the transition moment direction in fluorescence (about 8°) from that in absorption can be due to the incomplete linearity of the Hoechst molecule.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Xiaojuan Zhang ◽  
Wenbin Cai ◽  
Lingyun Hao ◽  
Wei Zhang

This study synthesized poly(vinyl alcohol)/carboxymethyl chitosan/cyanidin (PVA/CMCS/CY) hydrogel films. First, PVA and CMCS were used to synthesize hydrogel films by ultraviolet irradiation. Meanwhile, CY was in situ combined into the hydrogel films through the electrostatic attraction between CMCS and CY. Next, the products were analyzed using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, contact angle test, swelling analysis, and mechanical property test. The results revealed that compared with PVA/CMCS hydrogel films, the PVA/CMCS/CY hydrogel films had an interporous structure and good swelling and mechanical properties. Moreover, the drug release experiments demonstrated that the PVA/CMCS/CY hydrogel films had a CY encapsulation efficiency of 33.5% with a sustained CY release of up to 60 h. Furthermore, the examined antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli showed that the porous PVA/CMCS/CY hydrogel films exhibited a certain inhibition. Cell viability experiments demonstrated that the PVA/CMCS/CY films displayed no obvious cytotoxicity to human umbilical vein endothelial cells.


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