ハイドロゲルのフォトエラスティシティをプログラムし、ラベルフリーのメカノセンシングを同時に行う複屈折-応力リーダー（SiBRe）
Riku Katsuki1, Marc Eisenmann2, Shalika Singh3
1Department of Engineering Science, The Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan. taki@pc.uec.ac.jp.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 23, 2026
Abstract:
We present a strategy to program hydrogel photoelasticity using rationally designed force-transducing crosslinkers. Enabled by a simultaneous birefringence-stress reader (SiBRe), we show that stress-induced unfolding of flexible linkers can amplify the optical response, establishing a robust, dye-free platform for quantitative mechanosensing.
