Thermotropic Liquid Crystal-Assisted Chemical and Biological Sensors

In this review article, we analyze recent progress in the application of liquid crystal-assisted advanced functional materials for sensing biological and chemical analytes. Multiple research groups demonstrate substantial interest in liquid crystal (LC) sensing platforms, generating an increasing nu...

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Autores principales: Popov, Nicolai, Honaker, Lawrence W., Popova, Maia, Usol’tseva, Nadezhda, Mann, Elizabeth K., Jákli, Antal, Popov, Piotr
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5793518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29295530
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11010020
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author Popov, Nicolai
Honaker, Lawrence W.
Popova, Maia
Usol’tseva, Nadezhda
Mann, Elizabeth K.
Jákli, Antal
Popov, Piotr
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description In this review article, we analyze recent progress in the application of liquid crystal-assisted advanced functional materials for sensing biological and chemical analytes. Multiple research groups demonstrate substantial interest in liquid crystal (LC) sensing platforms, generating an increasing number of scientific articles. We review trends in implementing LC sensing techniques and identify common problems related to the stability and reliability of the sensing materials as well as to experimental set-ups. Finally, we suggest possible means of bridging scientific findings to viable and attractive LC sensor platforms.
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spelling pubmed-57935182018-02-07 Thermotropic Liquid Crystal-Assisted Chemical and Biological Sensors Popov, Nicolai Honaker, Lawrence W. Popova, Maia Usol’tseva, Nadezhda Mann, Elizabeth K. Jákli, Antal Popov, Piotr Materials (Basel) Review In this review article, we analyze recent progress in the application of liquid crystal-assisted advanced functional materials for sensing biological and chemical analytes. Multiple research groups demonstrate substantial interest in liquid crystal (LC) sensing platforms, generating an increasing number of scientific articles. We review trends in implementing LC sensing techniques and identify common problems related to the stability and reliability of the sensing materials as well as to experimental set-ups. Finally, we suggest possible means of bridging scientific findings to viable and attractive LC sensor platforms. MDPI 2017-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5793518/ /pubmed/29295530 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11010020 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Honaker, Lawrence W.
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Jákli, Antal
Popov, Piotr
Thermotropic Liquid Crystal-Assisted Chemical and Biological Sensors
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