Polymer-surfactant films containing glucose sensors

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This proposal continues our research on mesostructured surfactant templated polymer films that form spontaneously at the air-water interface. Our recent research has shown it is possible to form these surfactant templated films using biocompatible polymers, therefore we have incorporated glucose sensing functionality by incorporating phenylboronic acid into the polymer backbone. These films may provide a route towards glucose sensing membranes with controllable properties. Removal of toxic templating surfactants will open pores and assist glucose access to binding sites in the film, so structure retention functionality has also been added to these films by addition of alkylmethacrylates to the copolymer backbone. These will associate hydrophobically with the surfactant micelles of the templated mesostructure. Here we wish to determine the structure of films containing both species.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24077961
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24077961
Provenance
Creator Professor Karen Edler; Mr Jim Holdaway
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-11-12T09:01:06Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-11-14T09:18:06Z