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Key Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Simulation of Ministry of Education, Hunan Province College Key Laboratory of QSAR/QSPR, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
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Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
E-mail: landfester@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
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Institute of Organic Chemistry III, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
E-mail: ulrich.ziener@uni-ulm.de
Polym. Chem., 2013,4, 773-781
DOI:
10.1039/C2PY20589K
Received
01 Aug 2012,
Accepted
08 Oct 2012
First published online
08 Oct 2012
Novel amphiphilic photoswitchable thiophene-based fluorescent polymer dots (Pdots) were fabricated by coprecipitating a soluble and highly fluorescent polythiophene precursor with another photochromic spiropyran-linked amphiphilic copolymer into water under continuous ultrasound. The designed spiropyran-linked amphiphilic copolymer not only provided the fluorescent Pdots with unprecedented long-term photostability (>30 days) in aqueous media, but also allowed the reversible modulation of the fluorescence emission of the thiophene-based polymer via alternating irradiation with UV and visible light. These fluorescent Pdots not only show a uniform small particle size (ca. 16 nm in diameter), excellent long-term stability and high brightness of single particles, but also reveal distinct dual-color fluorescence, fast photo-responsiveness, as well as favorable photoreversibility with a fatigue resistance over at least 10 cycles of photoconversion.
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