Micelles of cleavable gemini surfactant induce fluorescence switching in novel probe: Industrial insight

[Display omitted] •Micelles of cleavable gemini surfactant induces fluorescence switching in novel probe.•Gemini surfactant was found to be efficient in color switching than conventional ones.•Substantial yellow to blue color switch obtained can be utilized to devise an industrial sensing strategies. In this communication we have observed that cleavable gemini surfactant micelles induce fluorescence switching in novel probe (bound to lysozyme) at lower concentrations (∼2.63 mM) compared to conventional surfactants, which are known to induce such phenomenon at above 30 mM. Fluorescence switching being important in sensing, binding, and probing the conformational states of proteins; therefore, in future this study could be significant to protein analytics and other relevant industrial domains.