ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

Water adsorption isotherms for Nafion

Abstract: Electroceuticals is the attempt to “…speak the electrical language of the nerves to achieve higher treatment effect”. Thus, the search is on to develop devices to enhance personalised healthcare. Part of creating such devices is selecting materials that can interface between biology and computers to enable efficient conversion of ion signals in biological systems to electronic signals for computer read-out. Our research efforts have yielded a new transistor system in which the proton conductor Nafion is bonded to a nanowire. The transistor performance changed depending on the state of Nafion hydration. As a result, we wish to characteristic thin film Nafion's morphological response to water content to help understand our devices. Hence we request the use of Neutron reflectometry, since it is the ideal technique to investigate thin film morphological behaviour.

Public release date: 28 June 2022

Principal Investigator: Dr Bernard Mostert
Experimenter: Dr Hamish Cavaye
Experimenter: Professor Adam Micolich
Local Contact: Dr Rebecca Welbourn
Experimenter: Professor Paul Merdeith
Experimenter: Dr Jan Goeran Gluschke
Experimenter: Dr Kostya Motovilov
Experimenter: Mr Joao Paulin
Experimenter: Mr Paul Hughes

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910351-1

Parent DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910351

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1910351

Part Number: 1

Date of Experiment: 25 June 2019

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Data format: RAW/Nexus
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