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TítuloOrganic-inorganic hybrid sol-gel materials doped with a fluorescent triarylimidazole derivative
Autor(es)Sousa, Rui Pedro Romero Amandi
Figueira, Rita Bacelar
Gomes, Bárbara R.
Costa, Susana P. G.
Azenha, Miguel
Pereira, Rui Francisco Gonçalves Pinto Fernandes
Raposo, M. Manuela M.
Data2-Jul-2021
EditoraRoyal Society of Chemistry
RevistaRSC Advances
Resumo(s)The development of sensors for pH monitoring is of extreme importance in the monitoring of concrete and reinforced concrete structures. Imidazole derivatives are promising probes for pH sensing due to the amphoteric nature of their heterocyclic ring, which can be protonated/deprotonated upon pH changes. In this work, a triarylimidazole was synthesised and used as a dopant in an organic-inorganic hybrid (OIH) sol-gel matrix to obtain a pH-sensitive membrane for further application in optical fibre sensors (OFS). The triarylimidazole probe shows fluorimetric response in pH between 9 and 13, which is the desired range for monitoring carbonation of concrete. This degradation process lowers the highly alkaline pH of concrete (12.5-13) to values below 9, which creates favourable conditions for corrosion of concrete reinforcement. The OIH membranes used were based on Jeffamine THF170 and 3-glycidoxypropytrimethoxysilane precursors, which had already been shown to be suitable and resistant in contact with cement-based materials. The OIHs were doped with three different contents of the triarylimidazole and the structural, dielectric, thermal and optical properties of the pure and doped OIH materials were evaluated. The structural analysis showed that the presence of the triarylimidazole did not change the structural properties of the OIH material. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy showed that in the doped samples the conductivity increased with the imidazole concentration. Theεrobtained for the doped samples ranged approximately from 11 to 19 and for the pure matrices was 8. Thermal analysis showed that these materials are stable up to 350 °C and that the presence of the probe did not change that feature. The optical properties showed that the prepared OIH materials have promising properties to be used as pH sensitive fluorimetric probes.
TipoArtigo
URIhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/78776
DOI10.1039/d1ra03997k
e-ISSN2046-2069
Versão da editorahttps://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ra/d1ra03997k
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