Functionalization of emissive conjugated polymer nanoparticles by coprecipitation: Consequences for particle photophysics and colloidal properties

Nanotechnology

Volumn 27, Issue 30, 2016, Pages

  Singh, Amita ^a,c   Bezuidenhout, Michael ^b   Walsh, Nichola ^a   Beirne, Jason ^a   Felletti, Riccardo ^a   Wang, Suxiao ^a   Fitzgerald, Kathleen T ^a   Gallagher, William M ^a   Kiely, Patrick ^b   Redmond, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

bioimaging; conjugated polymers; luminescence; nanoparticle; reprecipitation; spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHAINS; COPRECIPITATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; LUMINANCE; LUMINESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYETHYLENES; QUANTUM YIELD; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE DEFECTS;

ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; AMPHIPHILIC COMB POLYMER; BIO-IMAGING; EFFICIENCY OF ENERGY TRANSFER; ELECTROSTATIC STABILIZATION; FUNCTIONALIZED PARTICLES; MOLAR EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; RE-PRECIPITATION;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84978397870     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/27/30/305603     Document Type: Article

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