Bright quantum-dot-sized single-chain conjugated polyelectrolyte nanoparticles: Synthesis, characterization and application for specific extracellular labeling and imaging

• Main Authors: Liu, Jie, Feng, Guangxue, Liu, Rongrong, Tomczak, Nikodem, Ma, Lin, Gurzadyan, Gagik G., Liu, Bin
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105150; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20471; http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.201303505
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We report a simple method to fabricate quantum-dot-sized nanoparticles (NPs) from poly[9,9-bis((6-N,N,N-trimethylammonium)hexyl)fluorene-alt-co-2,1,3-benzo­xadiazole dibromide] (PFBD). The transmission electron microscope results reveal that the obtained NPs have a mean diameter of ≈4 nm, which is c...