@inproceedings{f881016e53dc421d867605b6c7183e63,
title = "Microcantilever arrays coated with photoactive polymeric brushes as systems to measure photo-induced surface stress changes",
abstract = "Here we investigate the feasibility of detecting the photo-reversible inter-conversion between the two thermo-dynamically stable states of the photochromic molecule spiropyran, using silicon microcantilever sensors. The merging of microcantilever technology and spiropyran photochromic brushes for the first time, offers a good route for the pairing of a sensitive transducer with a sensing surface which can be optically controlled. Photo-induced switching between the spiropyran isomers has been tracked through changes in surface stress of the cantilever that can be detected by monitoring the cantilever deflection.",
keywords = "microcantilever, photo-response, photochromic brushes, polymeric brushes, spiropyran",
author = "L. Florea and S. Koprivica and S. Scarmagnani and D. Diamond and F. Benito-Lopez and C. Grogan and F. Pedreschi and L. O'Neill and F. Lyng and R. Raiteri",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 14th IEEE SENSORS ; Conference date: 01-11-2015 Through 04-11-2015",
year = "2015",
month = dec,
day = "31",
doi = "10.1109/ICSENS.2015.7370484",
language = "English",
series = "2015 IEEE SENSORS - Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE SENSORS - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}