PMID- 34008953
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210714
LR  - 20210714
IS  - 1936-086X (Electronic)
IS  - 1936-0851 (Linking)
VI  - 15
IP  - 6
DP  - 2021 Jun 22
TI  - Measuring Molecular Diffusion Through Thin Polymer Films with Dual-Band Plasmonic 
      Antennas.
PG  - 10393-10405
LID - 10.1021/acsnano.1c02701 [doi]
AB  - A general and quantitative method to characterize molecular transport in polymers 
      with good temporal and high spatial resolution, in complex environments, is an 
      important need of the pharmaceutical, textile, and food and beverage packaging 
      industries, and of general interest to the polymer science community. Here we 
      show how the amplified infrared (IR) absorbance sensitivity provided by plasmonic 
      nanoantenna-based surface enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) provides such a 
      method. SEIRA enhances infrared (IR) absorbances primarily within 50 nm of the 
      nanoantennas, enabling localized quantitative detection of even trace quantities 
      of analytes and diffusion measurements in even thin polymer films. Relative to a 
      commercial attenuated total internal reflection (ATR) system, the limit of 
      detection is enhanced at least 13-fold, and as is important for measuring 
      diffusion, the detection volume is about 15 times thinner. Via this approach, the 
      diffusion coefficient and solubility of specific molecules, including l-ascorbic 
      acid (vitamin C), ethanol, various sugars, and water, in both simple and complex 
      mixtures (e.g., beer and a cola soda), were determined in poly(methyl 
      methacrylate), high density polyethylene (HDPE)-based, and polypropylene-based 
      polyolefin films as thin as 250 nm.
FAU - Chen, Hao
AU  - Chen H
AD  - Department of Material Science and Engineering, Materials Research Laboratory, 
      and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois 
      Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
FAU - Singhal, Gaurav
AU  - Singhal G
AD  - Department of Material Science and Engineering, Materials Research Laboratory, 
      and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois 
      Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
FAU - Neubrech, Frank
AU  - Neubrech F
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5437-4118
AD  - 2nd Physics Institute, Stuttgart University, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, 
      Germany.
AD  - Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 
      Stuttgart, Germany.
FAU - Liu, Runyu
AU  - Liu R
AD  - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois 
      Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
FAU - Katz, Joshua S
AU  - Katz JS
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0046-4062
AD  - Formulation Science, Corporate Research and Development, The Dow Chemical 
      Company, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426, United States.
FAU - Matteucci, Scott
AU  - Matteucci S
AD  - Formulation Science, Corporate Research and Development, The Dow Chemical 
      Company, Midland, Michigan 48674, United States.
FAU - Arturo, Steven G
AU  - Arturo SG
AD  - Engineering and Process Sciences, Corporate Research and Development, The Dow 
      Chemical Company, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426, United States.
FAU - Wasserman, Daniel
AU  - Wasserman D
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3234-0803
AD  - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois 
      Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
FAU - Giessen, Harald
AU  - Giessen H
AD  - 2nd Physics Institute, Stuttgart University, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, 
      Germany.
FAU - Braun, Paul V
AU  - Braun PV
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4079-8160
AD  - Department of Material Science and Engineering, Materials Research Laboratory, 
      and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois 
      Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
DEP - 20210519
PL  - United States
TA  - ACS Nano
JT  - ACS nano
JID - 101313589
RN  - 0 (Polymers)
RN  - 059QF0KO0R (Water)
SB  - IM
MH  - Diffusion
MH  - *Polymers
MH  - Solubility
MH  - *Water
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - diffusion
OT  - nanoantennas
OT  - organic molecules
OT  - plasmonics
OT  - polymer
OT  - surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy
EDAT- 2021/05/20 06:00
MHDA- 2021/07/15 06:00
CRDT- 2021/05/19 12:18
PHST- 2021/05/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/07/15 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/05/19 12:18 [entrez]
AID - 10.1021/acsnano.1c02701 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - ACS Nano. 2021 Jun 22;15(6):10393-10405. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c02701. Epub 2021 
      May 19.