Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ahmed, Sharjeel
• Macharia, Daniel K
• Zhu, Bo
• Ren, Xiaoling
• Yu, Nuo
• Chen, Liyun
• Chen, Zhigang

Titel

Blue/red light-triggered reversible color switching based on CeO 2-x nanodots for constructing rewritable smart fabrics

Ist Teil von

• Nanoscale, 2020-05, Vol.12 (18), p.10335-10346

Ort / Verlag

England

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Photoreversible color switching systems (PCSSs) have attracted increasing attention in various applications, but in most PCSSs the discoloration process usually relies on harmful UV light as a stimulus and the recoloration requires high temperature. To solve these problems, we have designed and prepared CeO2-x nanodots as novel photocatalytic components in PCSSs that respond to two kinds of visible light. CeO2-x nanodots are prepared by a solvothermal reaction with l-ascorbic acid as the reducing agent. CeO2-x nanodots with a size of ∼2 nm have a high concentration of oxygen vacancies, which confers a broadened photoabsorption with an edge at 500 nm, as well as a weak photoabsorption tail in the visible region (500-800 nm). To realize the color switching, both the CeO2-x/Dye/H2O solution and CeO2-x/dye/hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC)-coated fabrics have been prepared. Under blue (450 nm) light irradiation, both the solution and fabric show a rapid discoloration in 30 s and 150 s, respectively, due to the efficient photocatalytic reduction of the redox dye by CeO2-x. Conversely, red (630 nm) light irradiation with air confers a rapid recoloration in 35 s for the solution and 200 s for the fabric, resulting from CeO2-x-mediated self-catalyzed oxidation. In particular, the required images and letters can be remotely printed on CeO2-x/Dye/HEC-coated T-shirts with a 450 nm laser pen, and then erased with 630 nm light, with high reversibility and stability. Therefore, the present CeO2-x/Dye/HEC PCSSs have great potential to construct rewritable smart fabrics for various applications.