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Covalent Attachment of Single Molecules for AFM-based Force Spectroscopy
Published on: March 16, 2020
Molecular recognition in bisurea thermoplastic elastomers studied with pyrene-based fluorescent probes and atomic
Nicole E Botterhuis1, S Karthikeyan, Dirk Veldman
1Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Fluorescence spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements using bisurea-pyrene probes show that they are randomly dispersed in the hard blocks of thermoplastic elastomers with matching bisurea groups, whereas they phase separate from polymers with non-matching or no bisurea groups.

