Electrochromic Thin Film of Water-Dispersible Prussian-Blue Nanoparticles

Ayako OMURA; Hirofumi SHIOZAKI; Shigeo HARA; Tohru KAWAMOTO; Akihito GOTOH; Masahito KURIHARA; Masaomi SAKAMOTO; Hisashi TANAKA

doi:10.1093/ietele/e91-c.12.1887

Special Section on The Forefront of 21st Century Organic Molecular Electronics

Electrochromic Thin Film of Water-Dispersible Prussian-Blue Nanoparticles

Ayako OMURA, Hirofumi SHIOZAKI, Shigeo HARA, Tohru KAWAMOTO, Akihito GOTOH, Masahito KURIHARA, Masaomi SAKAMOTO, Hisashi TANAKA

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Keywords: Prussian-blue, nanoparticle, electrochromism, thin film, electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM)

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2008 Volume E91.C Issue 12 Pages 1887-1888

DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/ietele/e91-c.12.1887

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Abstract

The insoluble Prussian-blue (PB) pigment becomes possible to disperse in aqueous solution by covering their surfaces with ferrocyanide anions. The thin film fabricated with these water-dispersible PB nanoparticles shows evident electrochromic color changes between +0.8V to -0.4V on an ITO substrate. The mass change of the thin film during an electrochemical reaction is measured by means of electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM). According to the EQCM analysis, the filling rate of water-dispersible PB nanoparticles in the film is 37.7% as compared with an assumed perfect crystal PB film.

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