Facile one-pot synthesis of organic dye-complexed microgels for optical detection of glucose at physiological pH

摘要

With a rational design of functional co-monomers, low-cost dye-complexed microgels, capable of continuous glucose detection at physiological pH, were readily synthesized in one-pot via precipitation polymerization in water. The quantitative measurement of glucose is one of the most important analytical tasks. Besides the highly demanded blood glucose monitoring for the rapidly increasing diabetic patients, glucose detection is also essential in biotechnology, feed and food industry, and biochemistry in general.