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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-4-12
pubmed:abstractText
We present a study of Fo?rster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between two emissive conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs) in layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembled films as a means of examining their organization and architecture. The two CPEs are a carboxylic acid functionalized polyfluorene (PFl-CO(2)) and thienylene linked poly(phenylene ethynylene) (PPE-Th-CO(2)). The PFl-CO(2) presents a maximum emission at 418 nm, while the PPE-Th-CO(2) has an absorption ?(max) centered at 431 nm, in sufficient proximity for effective FRET. Several LbL films have been constructed using varied concentrations of the deposition solutions and identity of the buffer layers separating the two emissive layers, using a system of either weak polyelectrolytes, poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH)/poly(sodium methacrylate) (PMA), or strong polyelectrolytes, poly(diallylammonium chloride) (PDDA)/poly(styrene sulfonate) sodium (PSS). The efficiency of FRET has been monitored using fluorescence spectroscopy. Initially, the fluorescence of the PFl-CO(2) (E(g) ? 3.0 eV), which emits at 420 nm, is quenched by the lower band gap PPE-Th-CO(2) (E(g) ? 2.5 eV). For films using the PAH/PMA system as buffer bilayers and deposited from 1 mM solutions, the PFl-CO(2) fluorescence is progressively recovered as the number of intervening buffer bilayers is increased. Ellipsometry measurements indicate that energy transfer between the two emissive layers is efficient to a distance of ca. 7 nm.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1520-5827
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
© 2011 American Chemical Society
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
19
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5021-8
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Energy transfer between conjugated polyelectrolytes in layer-by-layer assembled films.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article