Fluorescent Vesicles Consisting of Galactose-based Amphiphilic Copolymers with a π-Conjugated Sequence Self-assembled in Water
✍ Scribed by Karim Aissou; André Pfaff; Cristiano Giacomelli; Christophe Travelet; Axel H.E. Müller; Redouane Borsali
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 368 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1336
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Fluorescent vesicles considered as a mimic of natural primitive cells are prepared from poly(3‐hexylthiophene)‐block‐poly(3‐O‐methacryloyl‐D‐galactopyranose) P3HT‐b‐PMAGP copolymers. The unique characteristic of such vesicular nanostructures is their architecture, which comprises a hydrophobic π‐conjugated P3HT wall stabilized by a hydrophilic PMAGP interface featuring glucose units. The results of this work offer a very efficient and straightforward method for engineering well‐controlled fluorescent nanoparticles (without the addition of dyes), which provide an excellent support to the study of carbohydrate‐protein interactions. magnified image