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Thermo‐Active Elastomer Composite for Optical Heating in Microfluidic Systems
Author(s) -
Geissler Matthias,
Voisin Benoît,
Clime Liviu,
Le Drogoff Boris,
Veres Teodor
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201202151
Subject(s) - elastomer , materials science , carbon nanotube , composite number , copolymer , polymer , composite material , mass fraction , microfluidics , irradiation , thermal , doping , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , physics , meteorology , nuclear physics
Single‐walled carbon nanotubes are used as doping agents to form thermo‐active composites with an elastomeric block‐copolymer. Thermal imaging reveals that the temperature response upon irradiation with NIR laser light is dependent (among other things) on the mass fraction of the nanotubes in the polymer matrix.