Fabrication of Photoluminescent Dye Embedded PMMA Nanofiber and its Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer

  • Lee, Kyung-Jin (Hyperstructured Organic Materials Research Center and School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Oh, Joon-Hak (Hyperstructured Organic Materials Research Center and School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Young-Geun (Hyperstructured Organic Materials Research Center and School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Jang, Jyong-Sik (Hyperstructured Organic Materials Research Center and School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2006.10.13

Abstract

The FRET property has been extensively studied from the theoretical view points to the practical applications. In case that the donor and acceptor are confined in nanodimension, the FRET effectively occurs, because of their distant dependent characteristic. However, there are no reports concerning FRET with one dimensional (1D) nanomaterial. We have successfully prepared the PMMA nanotubes using vapor deposition polymerization as the platform of FRET. The dye-PMMA composite nanofiber has also been produced without phase separation and any deterioration of properties of the dyes. The PMMA 1D nanocomposite doped two dyes with great spectral overlap between donor and acceptor displayed FRET property.

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