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Quantitative Contact Pressure Sensor Based on Spin Crossover Mechanism for Civil Security Applications
Detailed
studies of impacts on the new 1D spin transition polymer
[Fe(hyetrz)<sub>3</sub>]I<sub>2</sub>·0.5EtOH have been performed
under several controlled contact pressures, showing for high energy
values a color change of the compound and allowing a visual detection
of the spin transition from high-spin to low-spin states. By performing
detailed investigations on freshly impacted samples, using spectroscopic
diffuse optical reflectivity, we could follow the variation of the
optical spectra as a function of the energy of the impact. The meticulous
analysis of the obtained spectra allowed us to establish an absorption
peak at 550 nm whose intensity and position well correlate to the
energy of the impact. This concept provides a reliable method of measuring
the energy of a chock even if the sample does not change its color
so much in the visible range. This might be of high importance in
several civil security applications, like transportation of artwork
or other fragile valuable objects or even in the evaluation of the
degree of alteration of a material after a collision