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Fluorescent 'two-faced' polymer wafers with embedded pyrene-functionalised gelator nanofibres
Jamie R Moffat1, David K Smith
1Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
Abstract:
Pyrene-functionalised gelators self-assemble into nano-fibrillar organogels in DMSO/styrene/divinylbenzene mixtures, which when polymerised yield polymer wafers with two distinct faces, only one of which is fluorescent and has embedded gelator nanofibres.

