Thermo-active elastomer composite for optical heating in microfluidic systems

Matthias Geissler; Benoît Voisin; Liviu Clime; Boris Le Drogoff; Teodor Veres

doi:10.1002/smll.201202151

Thermo-active elastomer composite for optical heating in microfluidic systems

Small. 2013 Mar 11;9(5):654-9. doi: 10.1002/smll.201202151.

Authors

Matthias Geissler¹, Benoît Voisin, Liviu Clime, Boris Le Drogoff, Teodor Veres

Affiliation

¹ National Research Council of Canada, 75 de Mortagne Boulevard, Boucherville QC J4B 6Y4, Canada. matthias.geissler@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca

PMID: 23456791
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201202151

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't