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Scalable synthesis of multicolour conjugated polymer nanoparticles via Suzuki-Miyaura polymerisation in a miniemulsion and application in bioimaging

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posted on 2017-02-08, 14:45 authored by Jonathan M. Behrendt, Jair A. Esquivel Guzman, Laura Purdie, Helen WillcockHelen Willcock, John J. Morrison, Andrew B. Foster, Rachel K. O'Reilly, Mark C. McCairn, Michael L. Turner
Suzuki cross-coupling polymerisation of aryldibromides and aryldiboronate esters in a sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-stabilised miniemulsion provides a versatile and direct route to fluorescent conjugated polymer nanoparticles (CPNs). These nanoparticles have a conjugated backbone based on poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) (PFO), however, significant structural diversity is introduced by incorporation of electron withdrawing, heterocyclic comonomers (5–50 mol.%) in order to tune the emission wavelengths from blue to far-red/near-infrared. The robust nature of the polymerisation methodology allows for rapid assessment of the relationship between polymer composition, chain morphology and optical properties of the resultant CPNs. Moreover, the CPNs (after a simple and rapid purification step) can be used directly in fluorescence-based intracellular labelling experiments (in HCT116 cells), in which they display low cytotoxicity at biologically-useful concentrations.

Funding

The authors thank the University of Manchester Intellectual Property for award of Proof of Principle funding and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant number EP/K039547/1). A.B.F. would like to acknowledge funding from the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC). J.A.E.G. acknowledges Conacyt for award of a PhD scholarship.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

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  • Materials

Published in

Reactive and Functional Polymers

Volume

107

Pages

69 - 77

Citation

BEHRENDT, J. M. ... et al., 2016. Scalable synthesis of multicolour conjugated polymer nanoparticles via Suzuki-Miyaura polymerisation in a miniemulsion and application in bioimaging. Reactive and Functional Polymers, 107 (October), pp. 69 - 77

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© Elsevier B.V.

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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/

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2016

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This article was published in the journal Reactive and Functional Polymers [© Elsevier B.V.] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2016.08.006

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1381-5148

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  • en

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