Robust Scalable-Manufactured Smart Fabric Surfaces Based on Azobenzene-Containing Maleimide Copolymers for Rewritable Information Storage and Hydrogen Fluoride Visual Sensor

Autor: Conghua Lu, Chuanyong Zong, Tingyao Wu, Guoxin Fang, Zhang Yabin, Shuxiang Zhang, Jiachen Ma, Luqing Zhang, Luyang Miao, Zhai Congcong, Wenqing Liu
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: ACS applied materialsinterfaces. 13(35)
ISSN: 1944-8252
Popis: Functionalized materials with reversible color switching are highly attractive in many application fields, especially as rewritable media for information storage. It is critical yet challenging to develop a cost-effective strategy for the fabrication of stimulus-responsive chromogenic systems. Herein, we present a versatile dip-coating approach to fabricate robust smart textile with acid/base-driven chromotropic capability. Owing to the introduction of novel maleimide-based copolymers bearing azobenzene derivative moieties, smart textiles possess rapid color switching between yellow and orange-red, which is triggered by acid-base stimulations with the resulting reversible protonation/deprotonation of maleimide moieties. As a proof of concept of the application of the smart textile for high-performance rewritable media, various rewritable elaborate patterns can be fast trifluoroacetic acid-printed/triethylamine-erased (within 20 s) with excellent cycling stability and long legible duration (>30 days). Meanwhile, the smart textile can be employed as a visual sensor for the detection of hydrogen fluoride gas leakage. It is highlighted that the as-prepared robust smart textiles with superhydrophobic surfaces have excellent antifouling properties and chemical/mechanical stabilities, which can tolerate harsh environmental conditions and repetitive mechanical deformation. The robust smart textiles with simple low-cost large-scale production may find more advanced potential applications besides information storage and sensors demonstrated.
Databáze: OpenAIRE