Thermoresponsive silver/polymer nanohybrids with switchable metal enhanced fluorescence
Jingquan Liu1, Aihua Li, Jianguo Tang
1College of Chemistry, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory of Fiber Materials and Modern Textile, The Growing Base for State Key Laboratory, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China. jliu@qdu.edu.cn
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 15, 2012
Abstract:
In this communication we describe a new approach to the fabrication of fluorescent silver/polymer nanohybrids with thermo-switchable metal enhanced fluorescence (MEF). By manipulating a soft polymer spacer between the silver nanoparticles and the fluorophores a tunable MEF was achieved.
