Because their chemical and physical properties may be tailored over a wide range of
characteristics, the use of polymers is finding a permanent place in sophisticated electronic …

In this brief review we address a range of interesting applications and prospects of
responsive hydrogel thin films for the fabrication of “smart” responsive surfaces, membranes …

In the past two decades, the biological and medical fields have seen great advances in the
development of biosensors and biochips capable of characterizing and quantifying …

1. INTRODUCTION Holographic sensors are analytical devices that systematically diffract
narrow-band light in the ultraviolet to near-infrared range for application in the detection and …

Analyte-sensitive hydrogels that incorporate optical structures have emerged as sensing
platforms for point-of-care diagnostics. The optical properties of the hydrogel sensors can be …

Photonic crystal (PC) based bioassay techniques have many advantages in sensitive
biomolecular screening, label‐free detection, real‐time monitoring of enzyme activity, cell …

As populations expand worldwide, medical care will need to diversify its data collection
techniques to be able to provide adequate healthcare to global populations, this can be …

A novel holographic sensor system capable of detecting dynamic changes in glucose
concentration has been developed. The hologram is recorded within a bio-compatible …

Holographic sensors for monitoring H+ (pH) have been fabricated from ionizable monomers
incorporated into thin, polymeric, hydrogel films which were transformed into volume …

A glucose sensor comprising a reflection hologram incorporated into a thin, acrylamide
hydrogel film bearing the cis-diol binding ligand, 3-acrylamidophenylboronic acid (3-APB), is …