Monitoring of catalytic reactions in photonic crystal fiber

Author

Cubillas, A. ; Schmidt, M. ; Scharrer, M. ; Euser, T.G. ; Etzold, B. ; Taccardi, N. ; Wasserscheid, P. ; Russell, P. St J

Author_Institution

Excellence Cluster Eng. of Adv. Mater., Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF) offers several advantages for chemical analysis, for example, long optical pathlengths, sub-μL sample volumes, close to 100% overlap between light and sample, and more compact systems for sensing and photochemistry. Here we compare the performance of a conventional cuvette-based UV-VIS system for monitoring of catalytic reactions with a system based on liquid filled HC-PCF. We study the photo-Fenton catalytic reaction, which under visible light irradiation induces degradation of methylene blue dye (MB) in the presence of Fe²⁺ / H₂O₂.

Keywords

catalysis; dyes; holey fibres; hydrogen compounds; iron; photochemistry; photonic crystals; Fe-H₂O₂; chemical analysis; cuvette-based UV-VIS system; hollow-core photonic crystal fiber; liquid filled HC-PCF; methylene blue dye; photo-Fenton catalytic reaction; photochemistry; visible light irradiation; Absorption; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical variables measurement; Photonic crystal fibers; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943061

Filename

5943061