Reduction in aggregation and energy transfer of quantum dots incorporated in polystyrene beads by kinetic entrapment due to cross-linking during polymerization

We report the development of barcoded polystyrene microbeads, approximately 50 μm in diameter, which are encoded by incorporating multicolored semiconductor fluorescent nanocrystals (quantum dots or QDs) within the microbeads and using the emission spectrum of the embedded QDs as a spectral label. T...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1985. - 31(2015), 10 vom: 17. März, Seite 3167-79
1. Verfasser: Vaidya, Shyam V (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Couzis, Alex, Maldarelli, Charles
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2015
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Polystyrenes
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520 |a We report the development of barcoded polystyrene microbeads, approximately 50 μm in diameter, which are encoded by incorporating multicolored semiconductor fluorescent nanocrystals (quantum dots or QDs) within the microbeads and using the emission spectrum of the embedded QDs as a spectral label. The polymer/nanocrystal bead composites are formed by polymerizing emulsified liquid droplets of styrene monomer and QDs suspended in an immiscible continuous phase (suspension polymerization). We focus specifically on the effect of divinylbenzene (DVB) added to cross-link the linearly growing styrene polymer chains and the effect of this cross-linking on the state of aggregation of the nanocrystals in the composite. Aggregated states of multicolor QDs give rise to nonradiative resonance energy transfer (RET) which distorts the emission label from a spectrum recorded in a reference solvent in which the nanocrystals are well dispersed and unaggregated. A simple barcode is chosen of a mixture of QDs emitting at 560 (yellow) and 620 nm (red). We find that for linear chain growth (no DVB), the QDs aggregate as is evident from the emission spectrum and the QD distribution as seen from confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images. Increasing the extent of cross-linking by the addition of DVB is shown to significantly decrease the aggregation and provide a clear label. We suggest that in the absence of cross-linking, linearly growing polymer chains, through enthalpic and entropic effects, drive the nanocrystals into inclusions, while cross-linking kinetically entraps the particle and prevents their aggregation 
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