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Polydiacetylene-based electrospun fibers for detection of HCl gas.

Macromolecular rapid communications (2012-04-12)
Hyeryeong Jeon, Jaeyeon Lee, Myung Hwa Kim, Juyoung Yoon
ABSTRACT

Polydiacetylenes (PDAs), a family of conjugated polymers, are very intriguing materials in several aspects. Especially, the stimulus-induced apparent blue-to-red transition of the PDAs has led to the development of a variety of PDA-based chemosensors. In the current work, we synthesized PDA monomers bearing trimethyl amine (PCDA-DMEDA) and incorporated them with Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) into electrospun fibers. For the first time, we successfully demonstrated that PDA-based electrospun fibers can be used for the naked-eye detection of HCl gas by simple color change (blue to red).

MATERIALS
Product Number
Brand
Product Description

Sigma-Aldrich
Trimethylamine hydrochloride, 98%
Sigma-Aldrich
Trimethylamine solution, 43.0-49.0% in H2O (T)
Sigma-Aldrich
Trimethylamine solution, 25 wt. % in H2O
Sigma-Aldrich
Trimethylamine solution, 25 wt. % in propylene glycol