Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) Optical Fibers for Environment Sensing and Short-Range Optical Signal Transmission
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| Title: | Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) Optical Fibers for Environment Sensing and Short-Range Optical Signal Transmission |
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| Authors: | Jaiswal, Aayush Kumar, Hokkanen, Ari, Kapulainen, Markku, Khakalo, Alexey, Nonappa, Ikkala, Olli, Orelma, Hannes |
| Contributors: | Tampere University, Materials Science and Environmental Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, Molecular Materials, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Materiaalitiede ja ympäristötekniikka |
| Source: | ACS Appl Mater Interfaces |
| Publisher Information: | American Chemical Society (ACS), 2022. |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Subject Terms: | respiratory sensors, optical fibers, Monitoring, Biocompatible Materials, 02 engineering and technology, fibers, sensors, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Wearable Electronic Devices, Respiratory Rate, 0103 physical sciences, Materials Testing, Carbohydrate Conformation, Humans, ta216, Physiologic, sensing, ta218, Optical Fibers, Biocompatible Materials/chemistry, Monitoring, Physiologic, green photonics, ta213, ta114, 218 Environmental engineering, biosensors, cellulose, 0104 chemical sciences, Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium/chemistry, Spectrophotometry, Touch, 216 Materials engineering, Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium, optical fiber sensing, Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), 0210 nano-technology |
| Description: | Optical fibers are a key component in modern photonics, where conventionally used polymer materials are derived from fossil-based resources, causing heavy greenhouse emissions and raising sustainability concerns. As a potential alternative, fibers derived from cellulose-based materials offer renewability, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. In the present work, we studied the potential of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) to prepare optical fibers with a core-only architecture. Wet-spun CMC hydrogel filaments were cross-linked using aluminum ions to fabricate optical fibers. The transmission spectra of fibers suggest that the light transmission window for cladding-free CMC fibers was in the range of 550-1350 nm, wherein the attenuation coefficient for CMC fibers was measured to be 1.6 dB·cm-1 at 637 nm. CMC optical fibers were successfully applied in touch sensing and respiratory rate monitoring. Finally, as a proof-of-concept, we demonstrate high-speed (150 Mbit/s) short-distance signal transmission using CMC fibers (at 1310 nm) in both air and water media. Our results establish the potential of carboxymethyl cellulose-based biocompatible optical fibers for highly demanding advanced sensor applications, such as in the biomedical domain. |
| Document Type: | Article Other literature type |
| File Description: | fulltext; application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1944-8252 1944-8244 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acsami.1c22227 |
| Access URL: | https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsami.1c22227 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35000382 http://juuli.fi/Record/0388839822 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c22227 http://juuli.fi/Record/0386402822 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c22227 https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/145743 https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/112962 |
| Rights: | CC BY URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Permits the broadest form of re-use including for commercial purposes, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....e2f59102db1d1438bdcb41ab9fd2658a |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | Optical fibers are a key component in modern photonics, where conventionally used polymer materials are derived from fossil-based resources, causing heavy greenhouse emissions and raising sustainability concerns. As a potential alternative, fibers derived from cellulose-based materials offer renewability, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. In the present work, we studied the potential of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) to prepare optical fibers with a core-only architecture. Wet-spun CMC hydrogel filaments were cross-linked using aluminum ions to fabricate optical fibers. The transmission spectra of fibers suggest that the light transmission window for cladding-free CMC fibers was in the range of 550-1350 nm, wherein the attenuation coefficient for CMC fibers was measured to be 1.6 dB·cm-1 at 637 nm. CMC optical fibers were successfully applied in touch sensing and respiratory rate monitoring. Finally, as a proof-of-concept, we demonstrate high-speed (150 Mbit/s) short-distance signal transmission using CMC fibers (at 1310 nm) in both air and water media. Our results establish the potential of carboxymethyl cellulose-based biocompatible optical fibers for highly demanding advanced sensor applications, such as in the biomedical domain. |
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| ISSN: | 19448252 19448244 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acsami.1c22227 |