Enhanced emission and its switching in fluorescent organic nanoparticles

BK An, SK Kwon, SD Jung, SY Park

Index: An, Byeong-Kwan; Kwon, Soon-Ki; Jung, Sang-Don; Park, Soo Young Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2002 , vol. 124, # 48 p. 14410 - 14415

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Citation Number: 1258

Abstract

A new class of organic nanoparticles (CN-MBE nanoparticles) with a mean diameter of ca. 30-40 nm, which exhibit a strongly enhanced fluorescence emission, were prepared by a simple reprecipitation method. CN-MBE (1-cyano-trans-1, 2-bis-(4'-methylbiphenyl) ethylene) is very weakly fluorescent in solution, but the intensity is increased by almost 700 times in the nanoparticles. Enhanced emission in CN-MBE nanoparticles is attributed to ...