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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2021

FRET-Integrated Polymer Brushes for Spatially Resolved Sensing of Changes in Polymer Conformation.

Quinn A Besford, Huaisong Yong, Holger Merlitz, Andrew J Christofferson, Jens-Uwe Sommer, Petra Uhlmann, Andreas Fery

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Exploring Scent Distinction with Polymer Brush Arrays.ACS applied polymer materials · 2025
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  7. Machine Learning in Polymer Research.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  10. On the Road to Circular Polymer Brushes: Challenges and Prospects.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2024
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  18. Swelling-Activated, Soft Mechanochemistry in Polymer Materials.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2023
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7 authors.

Quinn A BesfordInstitute of Physical Chemistry and Polymer Physics, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung e. V., Hohe Str. 6, 01069, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1779-9176
Huaisong YongInstitute Theory of Polymers, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung e. V., Hohe Str. 6, 01069, Dresden, Germany.
Holger MerlitzInstitute Theory of Polymers, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung e. V., Hohe Str. 6, 01069, Dresden, Germany.
Andrew J ChristoffersonSchool of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0904-6630
Jens-Uwe SommerInstitute Theory of Polymers, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung e. V., Hohe Str. 6, 01069, Dresden, Germany.
Petra UhlmannInstitute of Physical Chemistry and Polymer Physics, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung e. V., Hohe Str. 6, 01069, Dresden, Germany.
Andreas FeryInstitute of Physical Chemistry and Polymer Physics, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung e. V., Hohe Str. 6, 01069, Dresden, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polymer brush surfaces that alter their physical properties in response to chemical stimuli have the capacity to be used as new surface-based sensing materials. For such surfaces, detecting the polymer conformation is key to their sensing capabilities. Herein, we report on FRET-integrated ultrathin (<70 nm) polymer brush surfaces that exhibit stimuli-dependent FRET with changing brush conformation. Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) polymers were chosen due their exceptional sensitivity to liquid mixture compositions and their ability to be assembled into well-defined polymer brushes. The brush transitions were used to optically sense changes in liquid mixture compositions with high spatial resolution (tens of micrometers), where the FRET coupling allowed for noninvasive observation of brush transitions around complex interfaces with real-time sensing of the liquid environment. Our methods have the potential to be leveraged towards greater surface-based sensing capabilities at intricate interfaces.

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chemosensingfluorescenceFRETpolymer brushespolymer dynamics

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PMID33979032
PMCPMC8361709

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