Interactions Between Amino Acid-Tagged Naphthalenediimide and Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes for the Design and Construction of New Bioimaging Probes

• Published in: Advanced functional materials Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 503 - 518
• Main Authors: Hu, Zhiyuan, Pantoş, G. Dan, Kuganathan, Navaratnarajah, Arrowsmith, Rory L., Jacobs, Robert M. J., Kociok-Köhn, Gabriele, O'Byrne, Justin, Jurkschat, Kerstin, Burgos, Pierre, Tyrrell, Rex M., Botchway, Stan W., Sanders, Jeremy K. M., Pascu, Sofia I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 08.02.2012; WILEY‐VCH Verlag
• Subjects: carbon nanomaterials; FLIM; laser scanning confocal fluorescence imaging; multiphoton; naphthalenediimide; supramolecular chemistry

A new synthetic route to functionalized single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) via supramolecular interactions using a specifically designed naphthalenediimide (NDI) nanoreceptor is demonstrated. The tendency of the NDI to spontaneously form composites with carbon nanomaterials leads to fluorescent...