Pd films on soft substrates: a visual, high-contrast and low-cost optical hydrogen sensor

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- Pd films on soft substrates: a visual, high-contrast and low-cost optical hydrogen sensor
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 8, Issue 1, Pages: 63-72(2019)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
  2.School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
  3.Department of Physics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Author bio：
  
  Jianfang Wang (jfwang@phy.cuhk.edu.hk)
  Chongjun Jin (jinchjun@mail.sysu.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-018-0114-x
  CLC：
- Published：2019，
  
  Published Online：09 January 2019，
  
  Received：08 June 2018，
  
  Revised：23 November 2018，
  
  Accepted：09 December 2018
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She, X. Y. et al. Pd films on soft substrates: a visual, high-contrast and low-cost optical hydrogen sensor. Light: Science & Applications, 8, 63-72 (2019).
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She, X. Y. et al. Pd films on soft substrates: a visual, high-contrast and low-cost optical hydrogen sensor. Light: Science & Applications, 8, 63-72 (2019). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-018-0114-x.

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For the rapid development of the hydrogen economy

a reliable and low-cost hydrogen sensor appears to be extremely important. Here

we first show that a palladium film deposited on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) can obtain an exceedingly high-reflectance contrast of 25.78 over the entire visible band upon exposure to 4 vol% hydrogen gas (H

2

) mixed with nitrogen gas. This high-reflectance contrast results from the surface deformation induced by the volume inflation after exposure to H

2

leading to the transition of the near-specular surface to a diffusing surface. In addition

a change in brightness is readable by naked eye upon exposure to H

2

with various concentrations from 0.6 to 1 vol% under the illumination of a fluorescent tube. Furthermore

this sensor possesses an excellent recyclability and quick response time of a few seconds. Compared with Pd nanostructure-based hydrogen sensors

this visual

high-contrast and low-cost sensor is of great potential for practical hydrogen sensing.

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