Microorganism-based assemblies of luminescent conjugated polyelectrolytes
Libing Liu1, Xinrui Duan, Huibiao Liu
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, PR China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 26, 2008
Abstract:
A novel approach was developed for the assembly of fluorescent conjugated polyelectrolytes into tubes on the micrometre scale of tunable length using fungi as living templates.
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