Sol-gel/polymer embedment, of protein

So far, the prevalent method to immobilize protein is sol-gel/polymer embedment of protein. It usually embeds and immobilizes protein in a three-dimensional netlike structure of macromolecule polymer. This technology has some characteristics such as mild conditions, multifarious sol-gels, and controllable membrane aperture and figure. It can also retain the bioactivity of protein well when applied to a high concentration of protein. However, the aggregation process is difficult to control. 

When a system contains a fluorophore in different environments (e.g. a fluo-rophore embedded in microheterogeneous materials such as sol-gel matrices, polymers, etc.) or more than one fluorophore (e.g. different tryptophanyl residues of a protein), the preceding relations must be modified. If dynamic quenching is predominant, the Stem-Volmer relation should be rewritten as... 

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