Importance of having low-density functional groups for generating high-performance semiconducting polymer dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 5429-5439

  Zhang, Xuanjun ^a   Yu, Jiangbo ^a   Wu, Changfeng ^a   Jin, Yuhui ^a   Rong, Yu ^a   Ye, Fangmao ^a   Chiu, Daniel T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

3 helix micelle; helix bundle; nanocarriers; peptide polymer conjugate; stability

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS; CELL SURFACES; CELLULAR LABELING; FLUORESCENT POLYMERS; FUNCTIONAL MOLECULES; FUNCTIONALIZED; FUNCTIONALIZED POLYMERS; HELIX BUNDLE; HIGH DENSITY; HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELLS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LOW DENSITY; MOLAR FRACTIONS; NANOCARRIERS; NON-SPECIFIC BINDING; PEPTIDE-POLYMER CONJUGATE; SIDE-CHAINS; SINGLE-PARTICLE; STREPTAVIDIN;

CARBOXYLATION; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CELLS; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HYDROPHILICITY; LUMINANCE; PROBES; PROTEINS; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS;

POLYMERS;

NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84862870281     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301308w     Document Type: Article

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