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posted on 2016-10-14, 15:43 authored by Jonathan M. Behrendt, Yun Wang, Helen WillcockHelen Willcock, Laura Wall, Mark C. McCairn, Rachel K. O'Reilly, Michael L. Turner
Polyfluorenes with both alkyl and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) side-chains have been synthesised and processed into fluorescent nanoparticles via nanoprecipitation. The PEG/alkyl ratio is found to exert a significant influence over the size, polymer microstructure and optical properties of the resultant nanoparticles. This paves the way for a deeper understanding of how polymer structure can be manipulated to provide greater control over the nanoprecipitation process.

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The authors acknowledge the Northwest Development Agency and University of Manchester Intellectual Property (UMIP) for funding.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Materials

Published in

Polymer Chemistry

Volume

4

Issue

5

Pages

1333 - 1336

Citation

BEHRENDT, J. ... et al., 2013. Fluorescent nanoparticles from PEGylated polyfluorenes. Polymer Chemistry, 4 (5), pp.1333-1336.

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© Royal Society of Chemistry

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

ISSN

1759-9954

eISSN

1759-9962

Language

  • en

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