Introduction to Fluorescent Polymers

Fluorescent polymers have been increasingly investigated to improve their water solubility and biocompatibility to enhance their performance in drug delivery and theranostic applications.

Introduction of multi-functionality in conducting polymers via modification with dyes is a facile technique that can be adopted to design various kinds of photosensitive and fluorescent polymers.

This work provides a novel guidance for the design of fluorescent polymers with portable, cost effective, and visual detection of TNP.

Hyperfluorescent polymers with high efficiency and full-color electroluminescence are developed by using through-space charge transfer polystyrenes as sensitizers for exciton utilization and fluorescent chromophores as emitters for light emission.

Here, we report a highly efficient CRET polymer dot (CRET-Pdots)-based system using catalytic CL reagents as energy donors and fluorescent polymers and dyes as energy acceptors.

, gold nanoparticles, quantum dots, fluorescent polymers, and optical fibers) for the waterborne pathogens.

This offers a platform to manipulate, track and control cellular behaviour by the in cellulo generation of macromolecules that have the ability to alter cellular motility, label cells by the generation of fluorescent polymers for long-term tracking studies, as well as generate a variety of nanostructures within cells.

Nile Red produced the best results (without interfering in infrared spectra) rendering microplastics fluorescent at 254 nm, but with limited number of fluorescent polymers, and at 470 nm (with orange filter), with fluorescence of plastics as well as natural organic matter (requiring a digestion step).

This study presents a generic approach to transforming ordinary optical agents (including fluorescent polymers, dyes, and inorganic semiconductors) into afterglow luminescent nanoparticles (ALNPs).

The fluorescent polymers had their structural, thermal, electrochemical and photophysical properties evaluated.

Fluorescent polymers have attracted interest in many fields such as sensing, diagnostics, imaging, and organic electronic devices.

Fluorescent polymers are one of the most desired materials for making novel flexible electronic components or spectral converters.

Among these approaches, the knitting method with FDA as an external cross-linker is the most time-efficient technique, whereas the Scholl coupling reaction has advantages for the production of fluorescent polymers.

Fluorescent polymersomes with both aggregation-induced emission (AIE) and CO2 -responsive properties were developed from amphiphilic block copolymer PEG-b-P(DEAEMA-co-TPEMA) in which the hydrophobic block was a copolymer made of tetraphenylethene functionalized methacrylate (TPEMA) and 2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DEAEMA) with unspecified sequence arrangement.

In addition, the hyperbranched polyamides are fluorescent polymers and their photoluminescence properties depend on molecular weight, solvent, excitation wavelength, and excitation time.