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Advanced Compositional Analysis of Nanoparticle-polymer Composites Using Direct Fluorescence Imaging
Published on: July 19, 2016
Hollow silica nanospheres containing a silafluorene-fluorene conjugated polymer for aqueous TNT and RDX detection
Jian Yang1, Sharraya Aschemeyer, H Paul Martinez
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Abstract:
Attachment of a copolymer of silafluorene and fluorene to 100 nm hollow silica nanoparticles provides a new method to detect aqueous TNT and RDX with a low detection limit using the suspended fluorescent nanoshells.

