Fundamental Study of Electrospun Pyrene-Polyethersulfone Nanofibers Using Mixed Solvents for Sensitive and Selective Explosives Detection in Aqueous Solution

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 13189-13197

  Sun, Xiangcheng ^a   Liu, Yixin ^a   Shaw, George ^a   Carrier, Andrew ^a   Dey, Swayandipta ^a   Zhao, Jing ^a   Lei, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

aqueous phase; electrospun nanofibers; explosives detection; fluorescence quenching; mixed solvents; sensing mechanism

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPLOSIVES; FLUORESCENCE; NANOFIBERS; PYRENE; QUENCHING; REUSABILITY; SOLUTIONS; SOLVENTS;

AQUEOUS PHASE; ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; MIXED SOLVENT; SENSING MECHANISM;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

EID: 84932639359     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03655     Document Type: Article

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