Reactivity of poly(dimethylsiloxane) toward acidic permanganate

Trung-Dung Dang; Marcos A. Cheney; Shizhi Qian; Sang Woo Joo; Bong-Ki Min

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.19, No.6, 1770-1773, November, 2013

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2013.03.009 Export Citation

Reactivity of poly(dimethylsiloxane) toward acidic permanganate

Trung-Dung Dang^{1, 2}, Marcos A. Cheney³, Shizhi Qian^{1, 4}, Sang Woo Joo^{1, †}, and Bong-Ki Min¹

¹School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 712-749, South Korea
²School of Chemical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 1st DaiCoViet, Hanoi, Viet Nam, Korea
³Department of Natural Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD 21853, USA
⁴Institute of Micro/Nanotechnology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA

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Poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) has been widely used in various microfluidic devices because it is considered to be one of the most inert materials available. A PDMS-based microfluidic system for the synthesis of manganese oxide (MO) nanoparticles is developed and tested. However, synthesis of MO nanoparticles in the PDMS-based microfluidic system is unsuccessful due to an unexpected reaction between acidic permanganate and PDMS. PDMS is pitted and coated with MnO2 and opalized silica, which are confirmed by SEM and EDX. The products of the reaction between PDMS and acidic permanganate are mainly MnO2, Cl2, SiO2 and CO2, respectively. Here we report for the first time the reactivity of PDMS toward acidic permangante resulting in a new process to coat the channel walls with MnO2.

Keywords:Poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS);Microfluidics;Permanganate;Manganese oxide;Silica

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[1] Whitesides GM, Ostuni E, Takayama S, Jiang X, Ingber DE, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering., 3, 335 (2001)

[2] Jahn A, Reiner JE, Vreeland WN, DeVoe DL, Locasio LE, Gaitan M, Journal of Nanoparticle Research., 10, 925 (2008)

[3] McDonald JC, Whitessides GM, Accounts of Chemical Research., 35, 491 (2002)

[4] Rubahn K, Ihlemann J, Jakopic G, Simonsen AC, Rubahn HG, AAPG Bull., 79, 1715 (2004)

[5] Chiou CH, Lee GB, Hsu HT, Chen PW, Liao PC, Sensors and Actuators B., 20, 280 (2002)

[6] Wagner J, Kohler JM, Nano Letters., 5, 685 (2005)

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[8] Khan SA, Gunther A, Schmidt MA, Jensen KF, Langmuir, 20(20), 8604 (2004)

[9] Rhee M, Valencia PM, Rodriguez MI, Langer R, Farokhzad OC, Karnik R, Adv. Mater., 23(12), H79 (2011)

[10] Zhou JW, Ellis AV, Voelcker NH, Electrophoresis, 31(1), 2 (2010)

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