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Khalid Naim1, Sreejisha T Nair1, Pranjali Yadav1
1Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Habitat Centre, Phase 10, Sector 64, Mohali, Punjab, 160062, India.
Abstract:
The synthesis of water-soluble chitosan nanocomposites incorporating BODIPY and the investigation of their photosensitization properties is reported. It was observed that the singlet oxygen generation capability of nanocomposites containing a mixture of BODIPY and iodine-containing molecules are higher than that of the nanocomposites containing BODIPY alone. It is hypothesized that the supramolecular interactions between BODIPY and iodine-containing molecules confined within the nanocomposites lead to the enhanced singlet oxygen generation.
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