'yoga for polymers': is it good for creating biosensor?
Dr. I. Okkelman, Dr. S. Banerjee, Prof. J. Kerry, Prof. D. Papkovsky and collaborators from Moscow State University (Russia) have published a new research article, investigating the effect of polymer stretching (hard elastic polymer materials) on analytical performance of incorporated phosphorescent O2-sensitive dyes. They found that polymer materials can display mechano-sensitive reversible response in terms of O2 sensitivity (intensity, phosphorescence lifetime and quenching constant). This finding is expected to be highly useful in design of high-performance O2-sensing materials (solid state sensors) for food safety, industrial and biological applications. The work was published in prestigious ACS Applied materials & interfaces journal.