Chameleon-inspired multifunctional plasmonic nanoplatforms for biosensing applications

Abstract One of the most fascinating areas in field smart biopolymers is biomolecule sensing. Accordingly, multifunctional biomimetic, biocompatible, and stimuli-responsive materials based on hydrogels have attracted much interest. Within this framework, design nanostructured that do not require any external energy source beneficial for developing a platform sensing glucose body fluids. In article, we report realization application an innovative consisting two outer layers nanocomposite plasmonic hydrogel plus one inner layer electrospun mat fabricated by electrospinning, where exploit photoinitiated free radical polymerization, obtaining compact stable device. Inspired exceptional features chameleon skin, silver nanocubes are embedded into poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-based network to obtain enhanced thermoresponsive antibacterial properties. The introduction creates compatible environment homogeneous coating while imparting excellent mechanical structural properties final system. Chemical, morphological, optical characterizations were performed investigate structure platform. synergetic effect system’s photothermal responsivity was evaluated. associated with revealed proposed system promising candidate glucose-sensing applications.