Stimuli-responsive microgel-based etalons for optical sensing

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Li, Xue
  • Serpe, Michael J.
  • Gao, Yongfeng

• Responsive polymer-based materials (or smart materials) have found numerous uses over the years due to their ease of synthesis and various responsivities/functionalities. Of them, stimuli-responsive hydrogel particles (microgels) have generated a lot of interest, and have been used for a number of applications, most importantly for this submission is their use as components of photonic materials. In this review, we highlight a few key examples of the use of stimuli-responsive materials for sensing applications, with a particular focus on our work with microgel-based etalons.

• Date created

  2015

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Biomedical Applications
  • Quartz-Crystal Microbalances
  • Protein-Concentration
  • Photonic-Crystal
  • Phase-Transition
  • Colorimetric Assay
  • Detecting Solution pH
  • N-isopropylacrylamide
  • Linear Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)
  • Copolymer Microgels

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3N01068P

• License

  © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 distributed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence