System comprising effectors and elastomers modified by variable-volume receptors, method for the production and use thereof

System according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the volume change of one and the same elastomer in an acidic and in a alkaline medium is a volume enlargement, respectively.

System according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the at least one effector comprises a liquid or a gas or a liquid and a gas as a medium, in which the elastomer is non-soluble.

System according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the effector comprises compounds that are selected from the group comprising anorganic acids, carboxylic acids, amines, vicinal amines, polyamines, amino acids, peptides, nucleosides, nucleotides, nucleic acids, biogenic effectors, steroids, Lewis acids, Lewis bases;

• alkaline, earth alkaline and transition metal cations;
• anions, or mixtures of two or more thereof.

System according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the elastomers comprise as receptors residues of compounds that are selected from the group comprising amines, polyamines, acids, crown ethers, cyrptands, spherands, polyalkylenegycolether, polyamides, lactames, imides, urea, guanidines, aromatic/heteroaromatic compounds, calixarenes, resorcinarenes, cyclophanes, paracyclophanes, rotaxanes, catenanes, polyrotaxanes, polycatenanes, cavitands, cycloveratrylenes, cyclodextrins, peptides, proteins, metal complexes or mixtures of two or more thereof, as well as biogenic receptors or parts thereof, including proteins and nucleic acids.

System according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, upon bringing into contact with the at least one effector, in addition to the volume, the optical properties of the receptor modified elastomer change as well.

System according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is manufactured according to a process comprising at least one of steps (i) or (j):

• (i) reacting at least one functionalized polymer with at least one receptor,
• (j) reacting at least one functionalized monomer with at least one receptor and subsequently reacting the at least one receptor-modified monomer obtained thereby to arrive at a polymer.

Process for manufacturing a system as defined in any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the process comprises the bringing into contact of the at least one effector with the receptor-modified elastomer.