A new paper from our group in collaboration with the School of Physics & Clinical & Optometric Sciences, Technological University of Dublin, the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, the
FOCAS Institute, Technological University Dublin the  Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering, University of Genova and the School of Chemistry & AMBER, the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, Trinity College Dublin has been just published in Sensors!

The paper entitled Silicon Cantilever Sensors to Detect Reversible Conformational Changes in Spiropyran Molecules from C. Grogan, G. Amarandei, S. Lawless, F. Pedreschi, F. Lyng, F. Benito-Lopez, R. Raiteri and Larisa Florea demonstrates that microcantilevers are able to sense the reversible conformational change of the molecular switch, SP, when functionalized on the gold surface of the microcantilever. The microcantilever deflection provides quantitative information of the stress induced by the conversion between the two isomers of the SP molecules when actuated with light of different wavelengths. This opens the possibility of microcantilever sensor technology with SP sensing capabilities.