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Higher Energy Gap Control Of Fluorescence In Conjugated Polymers, Chien-Hung Chiang
Higher Energy Gap Control Of Fluorescence In Conjugated Polymers, Chien-Hung Chiang
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Chemo- and biosensors based on fluorescent conjugated polymer benefit from greater detection sensitivity due to amplification of the electronic perturbations produced by analyte binding. This amplification stems from the exciton-transporting properties of conjugated polymers. A conventional design paradigm relies on the analyte binding events which generate sites of lower energy relative to the polymer energy: either fluorescence quenching sites (turn-off sensors) or bathochromically shifted fluorophores (turn-on sensors). In both type sensors, the excitons migrate to the lower-energy site created by analyte binding.
This dissertation primarily focused the investigation of an alternative paradigm when analyte binding creates higher energy gap sites …