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Single-material solvent-sensitive fluorescent actuator from carbon dots inverse opals based on gradient dewetting

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A novel solvent-sensitive fluorescent actuator with reversibility has been obtained from carbon dots (CDs) inverse opals, which is prepared via infiltrating CDs solution into the interstice of colloidal crystal template, thermal polymerization of CDs materials and removing the colloidal template. The as-prepared CDs inverse opal actuator shows a bending angle of 75° in 10.2 s, bending rate of 7.35 (°)·s−1. In particular, the fluorescence intensity of the films varies during the actuating process. The actuating behavior is attributed to the inhomogeneous swelling/shrinking of the film, which originates from the gradient dewetting by solvent evaporation and hydrogen-bonding interaction between the solvent molecules and oxygen/hydrogen ions of CDs side chain. The CDs inverse opal actuator has the advantages of quick response, good repeatability and strong fluorescence, which gives an important insight into the design and manufacture of novel and advanced solvent-actuators.

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  1. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China

    Jun-chao Liu, Yuan-yuan Shang, Da-jie Zhang & Rui-xiang Hu  (胡瑞祥)

  2. Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interface Sciences, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Jun-chao Liu, Yuan-yuan Shang, Da-jie Zhang, Zheng Xie & Jing-xia Wang  (王京霞)

  3. Laboratory of Bioinspired materials, School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Jing-xia Wang  (王京霞)

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This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Nos. 2016YFA0200803 and 2016YFB0402004), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51673207 and 51373183) and Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department (No. 09236).

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Liu, Jc., Shang, Yy., Zhang, Dj. et al. Single-material solvent-sensitive fluorescent actuator from carbon dots inverse opals based on gradient dewetting. Chin J Polym Sci 35, 1043–1050 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-017-1981-y

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