Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1248378 TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry 2011 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

This review deals with the emerging field of fluorescent conjugated polymers for the development of chemical and/or biochemical sensors. As a result of their amplified physical properties due to a “molecular wire effect”, these materials offer excellent characteristics to develop different sensing schemes (e.g., employing direct superquenching or relying on development of fluorescence-resonance-energy-transfer formats). The versatility of their synthesis procedures allows us to introduce the desired functional groups to achieve analytically useful interactions with analytes [e.g., from transition-metal ions to explosives, or even, in recent years, relevant biomolecules (e.g., proteins or DNA, where conformational changes play a decisive role in detection)].

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