Plasma surface modification of polymers for sensor applications
Polymeric sensors play an increasingly important role in monitoring the environment we live in, providing relevant information for a host of applications. Among them, significant efforts have been made to fabricate polymeric sensors useful for healthcare-related application fields, such as the sensi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/125266 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/125266 https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8tb01553h |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Polymers Chemical detectors Polímers Sensors químics Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria química |
| Sumario: | Polymeric sensors play an increasingly important role in monitoring the environment we live in, providing relevant information for a host of applications. Among them, significant efforts have been made to fabricate polymeric sensors useful for healthcare-related application fields, such as the sensitive detection of biomolecules and cellular interfacing. Within the well-established field of biomedical polymeric sensors, surface modification and/or functionalization using plasma is just emerging as a technology to improve selectivity and sensitivity in the biodetection process. Treatments based on plasma irradiation of polymer surfaces, which have been traditionally applied for cleaning, etching, activating or cross-linking, are currently being used to induce the formation of electrocatalytic species able to promote the oxidation of, for example, bioanalytes and/or gas molecules harmful for human health. Here, we summarize the main advances in the utilization of plasma technologies for the fabrication of polymeric sensors for advanced biomedical applications (e.g. humidity, temperature, pH, neurotransmitter, and glucose sensors). |
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