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Facile capture of conjugated polymer nanodots in silica nanoparticles to facilitate surface modification

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Conjugated polymer nanodots are shown to have great potential as probe for fluorescence-based biosensing and bioimaging applications. Yet the need to functionalize these polymer nanodots is hindering their uses in many applications. Here, we report the preparation and encapsulation of fluorescent polymer nanodots inside silica nanoparticles. The facile, template-assisted method has little effect on the fluorescent properties of polymer nanodots. The resulting nanodot-embedded silica nanoparticles can be easily functionalized for downstream applications.

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This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation (CBET-1065633).

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    Padmanabh B. Joshi & Peng Zhang

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Joshi, P.B., Zhang, P. Facile capture of conjugated polymer nanodots in silica nanoparticles to facilitate surface modification. J Mater Sci 50, 3597–3603 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-015-8920-5

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