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Electroactive Polymer Nanoparticles Exhibiting Photothermal Properties
Published on: January 8, 2016
Polypyrrole and polyaniline nanocomposites with high photothermal conversion efficiency
Lorena Ruiz-Pérez1, Loris Rizzello2, Jinping Wang3
1Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK. g.battaglia@ucl.ac.uk and The EPSRC/JEOL Centre for Liquid Electron Microscopy, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK.
Abstract:
The simple and scalable synthesis of poly[2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl phosphorylcholine] (PMPC)-coated conducting polymer (CP) nanocomposites is described. These functional nanocomposites exhibit tunable absorption in the near-infrared region with relatively high photothermal efficiencies. More importantly, their potential for bio-imaging and therapeutic treatment is proven by cellular uptake and cytotoxicity studies.
