• 文献标题:   Porous Graphene Oxide Films Prepared via the Breath-Figure Method: A Simple Strategy for Switching Access of Redox Species to an Electrode Surface
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHENG RM, COLOMBO RNP, ZHANG L, NGUYEN DHT, TILLEY R, DE TORRESI SIC, DAI LM, GOODING JJ, GONCALES VR
  • 作者关键词:   controlled transport, graphene oxide, electrochemical gate, thermoresponsive polymer, breathfigure method
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED MATERIALS INTERFACES
  • ISSN:   1944-8244 EI 1944-8252
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ New South Wales
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsami.0c16811
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Porous materials can be modified with physical barriers to control the transport of ions and molecules through channels via an external stimulus. Such capability has brought attention toward drug delivery, separation methods, nanofluidics, and point-of-care devices. In this context, gated platforms on which access to an electrode surface of species in solution can be reversibly hindered/unhindered on demand are appearing as promising materials for sensing and microfluidic switches. The preparation of a reversible gated device usually requires mesoporous materials, nanopores, or molecularly imprinted polymers. Here, we show how the breath-figure method assembly of graphene oxide can be used as a simple strategy to produce gated electrochemical materials. This was achieved by forming an organized porous thin film of graphene oxide onto an ITO surface. Localized brushes of thermoresponsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) were then grown to specific sites of the porous film by in situ reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization. The gating mechanism relies on the polymeric chains to expand and contract depending on the thermal stimulus, thus modulating the accessibility of redox species inside the pores. The resulting platform was shown to reversibly hinder or facilitate the electron transfer of solution redox species by modulating temperature from the room value to 45 degrees C or vice versa.