Light scattering and fluorescence photobleaching recovery study of poly(amidoamine) cascade polymers in aqueous solution

✍ Scribed by Keunok Yu; Paul S. Russo

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 879 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0887-6266
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0488(199606)34:8<1467::aid-polb10>3.0.co;2-7

✦ Synopsis

Diffusion coefficients of polyamidoamine cascade polymers (PAMAMs) were measured in aqueous solutions by dynamic light scattering and, after labeling with fluorescein isothiocyanate, by fluorescence photobleaching recovery. The dynamic light scattering results depended weakly on pH at a high salt concentration, but varied strongly with the concentration of added salt in the low-salt limit. The fluorescence photobleaching recovery values were almost independent of salt concentration. The difference between the two techniques is that thermodynamic nonideality strongly affects light scattering a t the concentrations that are experimentally accessible. The hydrodynamic sizes from fluorescence photobleaching recovery were somewhat smaller than those from dynamic light scattering in the high-salt limit, despite attachment of the dye. Nevertheless, fluorescently tagged PAMAMs should make suitable markers and diffusion probes.