The role of water uptake in novel all solid-state polymeric ion sensors

这项研究将使基于未增塑共聚物的坚固的全固态聚合物离子传感器的发展成为可能。值得注意的是，这些共聚物离子传感器的物理和化学稳健性将使它们广泛应用于新的和令人兴奋的分析应用，例如，潜水仪器中环境样品的原位分析，全血的临床分析，生物介质中微型电极的体内使用，特别是生物学和法医科学中的单细胞和微小样品，等等。中子表征技术的广泛应用使该项目与将于2007年投入使用的新OPAL反应堆高度一致。

This research will enable the development of robust all solid-state polymeric ion sensors based on unplasticized copolymers. Significantly, the physical and chemical robustness of these copolymer ion sensors will allow their widespread use in new and exciting analytical applications, e.g., in-situ analysis of environmental samples in submersible instruments, clinical analysis of whole blood, in-vivo use of miniaturized electrodes in biological media, especially single cells and minute samples in biology and forensic science, etc. Extensive use of neutron characterization techniques aligns strongly this project with the new OPAL reactor to be commissioned in 2007.