Issue 41, 2009
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Chemical Communications

Facile synthesis of hybrid silica nanocapsules by interfacial templating condensation and their application in fluorescence imaging†

Happy Tan,a   Nicole Siuyun Liu,b   Beiping He,b   Siew Yee Wong,c   Zhi-Kuan Chen,c   Xu Li*c  and  John Wang*ad  

* Corresponding authors

a NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering (NGS), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 117456

b Department of Anatomy, NUS, Singapore 117597

c Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Singapore 117602
E-mail: x-li@imre.a-star.edu.sg

d Department of Materials Science & Engineering, NUS, Singapore 117574
E-mail: msewangj@nus.edu.sg

Abstract

A stable aqueous dispersion of hybrid silica nanocapsules encapsulating fluorescent conjugated polymers have been successfully synthesized via a facile and highly benign approach of templated condensation of silica precursors at the core–corona interface of PEO-based block copolymer micelles.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B914366A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Jul 2009
Accepted
14 Aug 2009
First published
02 Sep 2009

Chem. Commun., 2009, 6240-6242

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Facile synthesis of hybrid silica nanocapsules by interfacial templating condensation and their application in fluorescence imaging

H. Tan, N. S. Liu, B. He, S. Y. Wong, Z. Chen, X. Li and J. Wang, Chem. Commun., 2009, 6240 DOI: 10.1039/B914366A

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