摘要 |
<p>An oxygen sensitive material capable of deployment as both a probe to measure oxygen concentrations in both gaseous and aqueous environments, and as a cell culture scaffolding from which spatial distribution of oxygen concentration within the cell culture can be measured and mapped, is provided The material is a microporous wettable scaffolding impregnated with a hydrophobic phosphorescent oxygen sensitive dye wherein the scaffolding is a polymer having a hydrophobic polymer backbone with hydrophilic pendant groups and/or hydrophilic pendant chains.</p> |