Thiophene-derived polymer dots for imaging endocytic compartments in live cells and broad-spectrum bacterial killing

• Main Authors: Prasad, Kenath Priyanka, Than, Aung, Li, Nan, Alam SK, Mahasin, Duan, Hongwei, Pu, Kanyi, Zheng, Xinting, Chen, Peng
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Polymer dots; Bioimaging
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84083; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42917
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this work, we present a new type of polymer dot synthesized from bithiophene (pTh-Pdot) via a simple and high yield procedure. Owing to their high brightness, excellent photo-stability, good biocompatibility, and molecular size, pTh-Pdots are promising for bioimaging applications. As a proof-of-c...