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Photodynamic Therapy with Blended Conducting Polymer/Fullerene Nanoparticle Photosensitizers
Published on: October 28, 2015
Color-tunable photoluminescent fullerene nanoparticles
Jinyoung Jeong1, Juyeon Jung, Mijin Choi
1BioNanotechnology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.
Abstract:
Highly water-soluble and color-tunable photoluminescent fullerene nanoparticles are synthesized by using tetraethylene glycol (TEG) and lithium hydroxide as a catalyst. The maximum PL emission changes depend on the contents of the remaining π-conjugation in oxidized C(60), which is partially covalently conjugated with TEG. The PL behavior is attributed to an electronic transition change due to the distortion of symmetrical C(60).
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