Fluorescent polystyrene

Roth, C.B., McNemy, K.L., Jager, W.F., Torkelson, J.M. Eliminating the enhanced mobility at the free surface of polystyrene Fluorescence studies of the glass transition temperature in thin bilayer films of immiscible polymers. Macromolecules 40(7), 2568-2574 (2007)... 

Polymer—Cp—MCl complexes have been formed with the Cp-group covalendy bound to a polystyrene bead. The metal complex is uniformly distributed throughout the bead, as shown by electron microprobe x-ray fluorescence. Olefin hydrogenation catalysts were then prepared by reduction with butyl hthium (262). 

Principal component analysis has been used in combination with spectroscopy in other types of multicomponent analyses. For example, compatible and incompatible blends of polyphenzlene oxides and polystyrene were distinguished using Fourier-transform-infrared spectra (59). Raman spectra of sulfuric acid/water mixtures were used in conjunction with principal component analysis to identify different ions, compositions, and hydrates (60). The identity and number of species present in binary and tertiary mixtures of polycycHc aromatic hydrocarbons were deterrnined using fluorescence spectra (61). 

Xanthene Dyes. This class is best represented by Rhodamine B. It has high fluorescent brilliance but poor light and heat stabihty it may be used in phenohcs. Sulfo Rhodamine is stable and is useflil in nylon-6,6. Other xanthenes used in acryhcs, polystyrene, and rigid poly(vinyl chloride) are Solvent Green 4, Acid Red 52, Basic Red 1, and Solvent Orange 63 (see Xanthene dyes). 

Samples used in this work are the binary polymer mixtures with the characteristics illustrated in Table 10.1. Here, PSA and PSAF stand, respectively, for polystyrene labeled with anthracene and polystyrene doubly labeled with anthracene and fluorescein used as a fluorescent marker. On the other hand, PSC and PVME stands respectively for polystyrene labeled with trans-cirmamic acid and poly(vinyl methyl ether). The factor a in Table 10.1 indicates the label content of anthracene in the polystyrene chain in the unit of number of labels per one chain. For PSC, the label content is 1 cinnamic acid per 28 styrene monomers. 

Conjugated boron polymers containing platimnn or palladium atom in the main chain were also prepared by hydroboration polymerization between tetrayne/ metal complex monomers and tripylborane (scheme 16).30 From gel permeation chromatographic analysis [THF, polystyrene (PSt) standards], the number-average molecular weights of the polymers obtained were found to be 9000. The polymers were soluble in common organic solvents such as THF, chloroform, and benzene. The absorption peaks due to tt-tt transition were observed around 390 nm in the UV-vis spectra of these polymers. The fluorescence emission spectra exhibited intense peaks at 490 nm in chloroform. 

With increasing concentration of DHB, the photoproduct forms more slowly, as evidenced by decreasing loss of fluorescence intensity (Table I, entries 1-3). Nevertheless, the concentration of photoproduct(s) and RET from the polymer to photoproduct(s) are expected to increase with time, and stabilization of the polymer will eventually depend upon the capability of the photoproduct(s) to dissipate excitation energy imparted in the RET process. The observed decrease in stabilization efficiency by DHB (based on film discoloration) with exposure time in an accelerometer indicates that DHB is more effective than the photoproduct(s) in dissipating the light energy. Similar spectroscopic studies on polystyrene have led to the same conclusion in this case, as well.6... 

The microspheres—synthesised via a two-step process (acid-catalysed hydrolysis and condensation of 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (MPS) in aqueous solution, followed by condensation catalysed by triethanolamine)—have a narrow size distribution (Figure 5.16) and are considerably more stable than polystyrene divinylbenzene microspheres as shown in phosphoramidite oligonucleotide synthesis by the excellent retention of fluorescence intensity in each of the reagent steps involved in phosphoramidite DNA synthesis (Figure 5.17, in which the organo-silica microsphere free thiol groups are derivatized with ATTO 550 maleimide coupled to the entrapped dye). 

Figure 1. Ratio of excimer (le) to monomer (Im) fluorescence intensifies of spin cast polystyrene films as a function of (spin speed)...

Unsubstituted thioindigo, which is marketed as Vat Red 41, 73300, is used in rigid PVC, polystyrene, and a number of other plastics. Dissolved in its medium, the pigment affords fluorescent bluish red shades. 

Qian HS, Li ZQ, Zhang Y (2008) Multicolor polystyrene nanospheres tagged with up-conversion fluorescent nanocrystals. Nanotechnology 19(255601)4... 

Zhang P, Dou H, Li W, Tao K, Xing B, Sun K (2007) Fabrication of fluorescent and magnetic multifunctional polystyrene microbeads with carboxyl ends. Chem Lett 36 1458-1459... 

For the distyrylbenzene carbon-centered tetramer 46b, the fluorescence spectrum in the solid him differs from the spectra in solution or in a polymer matrix due to excimer formation [93]. A concentration of 5% in a polystyrene matrix is sufficient for a distinct broadening of the emission. For the higher homologue 46c, a fluorescence maximum of 472 nm was measured in freshly prepared films. If the film is thermally annealed, the spectrum shifts to 511 nm, probably due to intermolecular arrangement that favors excimer formation. 

Our experiments are typically carried out at DNA concentrations of 20-50 /ig/ml with 1 ethidium per 300 bp, so that depolarization by excitation transfer is negligible.(18) The sample is excited with 575-nm light, and the fluorescence is detected at 630, 640, or 645 nm. Less than one fluorescent photon is detected for every 100 laser shots. The instrument response function e(t) is determined using 575-nm incident light scattered from a suspension of polystyrene latex spheres. 

A similar simplifying assumption has been used by Allain et al.(90) in analyzing their experiments on a flexible fluorescent anthracene-polystyrene copolymer coil in the vicinity of a nonadsorbing wall. The analysis appears to confirm a local decrease in C(z) for small z at the solid/solution interface. Such a depletion layer is interpreted in terms of an entropic repulsion ... 

Figure 8.1. Fluorescence spectra for three individual dye-impregnated polystyrene spheres in a hominally monodispersed hydrosol (from Ref. 1).

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