TY  - JOUR
AU  - Inal, Sahika
AU  - Chiappisi, Leonardo
AU  - Kölsch, Jonas D.
AU  - Kraft, Mario
AU  - Appavou, Marie-Sousai
AU  - Scherf, Ullrich
AU  - Wagner, Manfred
AU  - Hansen, Michael Ryan
AU  - Gradzielski, Michael
AU  - Laschewsky, André
AU  - Neher, Dieter
TI  - Temperature-Regulated Fluorescence and Association of an Oligo(ethyleneglycol)methacrylate-Based Copolymer with a Conjugated Polyelectrolyte—The Effect of Solution Ionic Strength
JO  - The journal of physical chemistry  / B
VL  - 117
IS  - 46
SN  - 1520-5207
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Soc.
M1  - FZJ-2015-03395
SP  - 14576 - 14587
PY  - 2013
AB  - Aqueous mixtures of a dye-labeled non-ionic thermoresponsive copolymer and a conjugated cationic polyelectrolyte are shown to exhibit characteristic changes in fluorescence properties in response to temperature and to the presence of salts, enabling a double-stimuli responsiveness. In such mixtures at room temperature, i.e., well below the lower critical solution temperature (LCST), the emission of the dye is strongly quenched due to energy transfer to the polycation, pointing to supramolecular interactions between the two macromolecules. Increasing the concentration of salts weakens the interpolymer interactions, the extent of which is simultaneously monitored from the change in the relative emission intensity of the components. When the mixture is heated above its LCST, the transfer efficiency is significantly reduced, signaling a structural reorganization process, however, surprisingly only if the mixture contains salt ions. To elucidate the reasons behind such thermo- and ion-sensitive fluorescence characteristics, we investigate the effect of salts of alkali chlorides, in particular of NaCl, on the association behavior of these macromolecules before and after the polymer phase transition by a combination of UV–vis, fluorescence, and 1H NMR spectroscopy with light scattering and small-angle neutron scattering measurements
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000327557700040
DO  - DOI:10.1021/jp408864s
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/201085
ER  -